Opinion
2016–04964 Ind. No. 10815/13
01-16-2019
The PEOPLE, etc., Respondent, v. Steve BOLLERS, Appellant.
Paul Skip Laisure, New York, N.Y. (Tammy E. Linn of counsel), for appellant. Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Victor Barall of counsel; Robert Ho on the memorandum), for respondent.
Paul Skip Laisure, New York, N.Y. (Tammy E. Linn of counsel), for appellant.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Victor Barall of counsel; Robert Ho on the memorandum), for respondent.
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P., SYLVIA O. HINDS–RADIX, VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON, ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.
DECISION & ORDER
ORDERED that the sentence is affirmed.
The defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid because the Supreme Court did not adequately explain the nature of the rights being waived (see People v. Jackson, 166 A.D.3d 649, 87 N.Y.S.3d 206 ; People v. Chambers, 142 A.D.3d 672, 36 N.Y.S.3d 824 ; People v. Brown, 122 A.D.3d 133, 140, 992 N.Y.S.2d 297 ), and thus, does not preclude review of his excessive sentence claim. However, the sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v. Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80, 455 N.Y.S.2d 675 ).
RIVERA, J.P., HINDS–RADIX, BRATHWAITE NELSON and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.