Case ID: ad3d_82/html/1668-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v John R. McLellan, Appellant.
    [919 NYS2d 447]
   Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him, upon his plea of guilty, of two counts of criminal sexual act in the second degree (Penal Law § 130.45 [1]). Although, as the People correctly concede, defendant’s challenge to the legality of the sentence survives his waiver of the right to appeal (see People v Christopher T., 48 AD3d 1131 [2008]), we reject defendant’s contention that the imposition of consecutive sentences was illegal. The facts and circumstances that defendant admitted during the plea allocution establish that he committed two separate and distinct acts of oral sexual conduct that formed the basis for the two counts of criminal sexual act to which he pleaded guilty. Thus, County Court was authorized to impose consecutive sentences (see People v Quirk, 73 AD3d 1089 [2010], lv denied 15 NY3d 955 [2010]; see generally People v Laureano, 87 NY2d 640, 643-644 [1996]). Present — Scudder, RJ., Centra, Sconiers, Gorski and Martoche, JJ.