People v. Byrd

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (D’Emic, J.), rendered October 25, 2010, convicting him of burglary in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, he validly waived his right to appeal. The Supreme Court sufficiently £‘describ[ed] the nature of the right being waived without lumping that right into the panoply of trial rights automatically forfeited upon pleading guilty and elicit[ed] agreements of understanding from the defendant” (People v Lopez, 6…