PEOPLE v. EFFERSON (2025)

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

The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Dominique N. EFFERSON, appellant.

2024-06591

Decided: May 07, 2025

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, J.P., ROBERT J. MILLER, LOURDES M. VENTURA, JAMES P. MCCORMACK, JJ.

Alex Smith, Middletown, NY, for appellant. David M. Hoovler, District Attorney, Goshen, NY (Cynthia Dolan and Andrew R. Kass of counsel), for respondent.

DECISION & ORDER

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (Richard J. Guertin, J.), rendered May 29, 2024, convicting him of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

The record demonstrates that the defendant knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently waived his right to appeal (see People v. Thomas, 34 NY3d 545; People v. Lopez, 6 NY3d 248). The defendant's contention that his sentence constitutes cruel and unusual punishment is precluded by his valid waiver of the right to appeal (see People v. Florio, 179 AD3d 834, 835; People v. Rodriguez, 82 AD3d 794, 795), as is his contention that this Court should exercise its interest of justice jurisdiction to reduce the sentence (see People v. Lopez, 6 NY3d at 255).

CONNOLLY, J.P., MILLER, VENTURA and MCCORMACK, JJ., concur.

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