People v. Pinkston

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Laura A. Ward, J., at plea; Cassandra M. Mullen, J., at sentencing), rendered December 10, 2012, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and fourth degrees, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of nine years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant made a valid waiver of his right to appeal (see People v Sanders, 25 NY3d 337, 341 [2015]; People v Lopez, 6 NY3d 248, 256-257 [2006]). Regardless of…