Opinion
06-23-2016
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Julian JAMES, Defendant–Appellant.
Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Eve Kessler of counsel), for appellant. Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Ryan P. Mansell of counsel), for respondent.
Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Eve Kessler of counsel), for appellant.
Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Ryan P. Mansell of counsel), for respondent.
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John S. Moore, J. at plea; Albert Lorenzo, J. at sentencing), rendered February 6, 2014 convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him to a term of 2 ½ years, unanimously affirmed.
Although we do not find that defendant made a valid waiver of the right to appeal, we perceive no basis for reducing the sentence.
TOM, J.P., FRIEDMAN, RICHTER, KAPNICK, GESMER, JJ., concur.