The People v. Raymond Leach

I concur in the result, but write separately to address the invalidity of defendant’s postplea waiver, obtained at defendant’s postplea, non-contemporaneous sentencing proceeding. The issue is preserved, and the propriety of these types of waivers is likely to evade our review, *1155when, as here, a defendant challenges the severity of a sentence in the Appellate Division, but completes the sentence prior to a decision from this Court. The fact that the Appellate Division previously rejected waivers obtained in the course of this same sentencing procedure, but found defendant’s waiver valid in…