People v. Collins

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lewis, J.), imposed February 21, 2014, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.

Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

A defendant who has validly waived the right to appeal has waived the right to invoke this Court’s interest of justice jurisdiction to reduce the sentence (see People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 255 [2006]). Here, however, this Court is not precluded from exercising its interest of justice jurisdiction because the defendant’s purported waiver of his right to appeal was…