THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK v. JOSHUA ROMAN (2025)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOSHUA ROMAN, Defendant–Appellant.

Ind. No. 72966 /23

Decided: December 16, 2025

Moulton, J.P., Kennedy, Mendez, Michael, Chan, JJ.

Jenay Nurse Guilford, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Elizabeth Lagerfeld of counsel), for appellant.

Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Aidan Sanchez of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Raymond L. Bruce, J.), rendered June 4, 2024, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him to a three-year term of probation, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant validly waived his right to appeal (see People v. Thomas, 34 NY3d 545 [2019], cert denied 589 US—, 140 S Ct 2020] ), which forecloses review of both his constitutional vagueness challenge to a condition of his probation and his excessive sentence claim (see People v. Lowndes, 239 AD3d 574, 574 [1st Dept 2025] ). In any event, defendant's constitutional challenge is unpreserved, and we decline to review

it in the interest of justice.

We also perceive no basis for reducing defendant's sentence.

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