

People v Quinones (2018 NY Slip Op 06038)





People v Quinones


2018 NY Slip Op 06038


Decided on September 12, 2018


Appellate Division, Second Department


Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.


This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.



Decided on September 12, 2018
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.
MARK C. DILLON
FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY
ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.


2014-07614
 (Ind. No. 101/14)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,
vEduardo B. Quinones, appellant.


Gary E. Einsenberg, New City, NY, for appellant.
David M. Hoovler, District Attorney, Middletown, NY (Elizabeth L. Schulz of counsel), for respondent.

DECISION & ORDER
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (Jeffrey G. Berry, J.), rendered July 1, 2014, convicting him of burglary in the third degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid because the County Court's colloquy failed to ensure that the defendant understood the distinction between the right to appeal and the other rights that are automatically forfeited upon a plea of guilty (see People v Resnick, 159 AD3d 724, 724; People v Wells, 135 AD3d 976, 976). Accordingly, the waiver does not preclude review of the defendant's excessive sentence claim. However, the sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80).
MASTRO, J.P., DILLON, CONNOLLY and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court


