People v. Watson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Juan M. Merchan, J.), rendered January 8, 2016, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of two to four years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant made a valid waiver of his right to appeal, which forecloses his claims that the sentence court misperceived its discretion, and that the sentence was excessive. The oral colloquy, in which the court separated the right to appeal from the rights automatically given up by pleading guilty, along with the written…