People v. Pimentel

212 A.D.3d 444, 179 N.Y.S.3d 574, 2023 NY Slip Op 00062

Opinion

People v Pimentel (2023 NY Slip Op 00062)

People v Pimentel

2023 NY Slip Op 00062

Decided on January 10, 2023

Appellate Division, First Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

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Decided and Entered: January 10, 2023
Before: Acosta, P.J., Webber, Moulton, Shulman, Higgitt, JJ.

Ind. No. 439/17 Appeal No. 17055 Case No. 2019-5296

[*1]The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Angel Pimentel, Defendant-Appellant.

Twyla Carter, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Sarah Chaudhry of counsel), for appellant.

Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Stephanie L. Nelson of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Shari R. Michels, J.), rendered March 14, 2018, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 3½ years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant made a valid waiver of his right to appeal (see People v Thomas, 34 NY3d 545 [2019], cert denied 589 US —&mdash, 140 S Ct 2634 [2020]; People v Bryant, 28 NY3d 1094 [2016]), which forecloses review of his excessive sentence claim. In any event, we perceive no basis for reducing defendant's five-year term of postrelease supervision.

We decline to revisit this Court's prior order, which denied defendant's motion for disclosure of grand jury minutes. Defendant seeks access to these minutes for the

purpose of raising an evidentiary claim that would be foreclosed by his guilty plea (see People v Hansen, 95 NY2d 227, 230 [2000]), as well as his appeal waiver.THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER

OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.

ENTERED: January 10, 2023