Case ID: ad3d_111/html/1320-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v San Antonio Russell, Jr., Appellant.
    [974 NYS2d 832]
   — Appeal from a judgment of the Monroe County Court (Frank E Geraci, Jr., J.), rendered May 15, 2009. The judgment convicted defendant as a juvenile offender upon his plea of guilty of robbery in the first degree.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him as a juvenile offender upon his plea of guilty of robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15 [4]), defendant contends that the waiver of the right to appeal is not valid, and he challenges the severity of the sentence. Although we agree with defendant that the waiver of the right to appeal is invalid because the perfunctory inquiry made by County Court was “insufficient to establish that the court ‘engage[d] the defendant in an adequate colloquy to ensure that the waiver of the right to appeal was a knowing and voluntary choice’ ” (People v Brown, 296 AD2d 860, 860 [2002], lv denied 98 NY2d 767 [2002]; see People v Hamilton, 49 AD3d 1163, 1164 [2008]), we nevertheless conclude that the sentence is not unduly harsh or severe. Present — Fahey, J.E, Peradotto, Lindley, Sconiers and Whalen, JJ.