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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Sean D. Clifford, Appellant.
    [872 NYS2d 306]
   Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Niagara County (Sara S. Sperrazza, J.), rendered August 15, 2007. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.

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

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (Penal Law §§ 110.00, 265.02 [7]). Defendant knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to appeal (see People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256 [2006]), and that valid waiver encompasses his challenge to the severity of the sentence (see id.). Moreover, defendant failed to move to withdraw the plea or to vacate the judgment of conviction and thus has failed to preserve for our review his challenge to the voluntariness of his plea (see People v Collins, 45 AD3d 1472 [2007], lv denied 10 NY3d 861 [2008]; People v DeJesus, 248 AD2d 1023 [1998], lv denied 92 NY2d 878 [1998]). In any event, we conclude that defendant’s challenges are without merit. Present—Smith, J.P., Centra, Fahey, Green and Pine, JJ.