People v. Simpson
Opinion
People v Simpson (2025 NY Slip Op 06735)
| People v Simpson |
| 2025 NY Slip Op 06735 |
| Decided on December 3, 2025 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports. |
Decided on December 3, 2025 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
BETSY BARROS, J.P.
BARRY E. WARHIT
CARL J. LANDICINO
LAURENCE L. LOVE, JJ.
2023-02175
(Ind. No. 71474/22)
v
Valdez Simpson, appellant.
Patricia Pazner, New York, NY (Joshua M. Levine of counsel), for appellant.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Julian Joiris, and Isaac Rounseville of counsel), for respondent.
DECISION & ORDER
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Dena E. Douglas, J.), rendered February 23, 2023, convicting him of attempted assault in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's valid waiver of his right to appeal precludes appellate review of his contention that his adjudication as a second felony offender was unconstitutional in light of Erlinger v United States (602 US 821), since such a challenge implicates the Supreme Court's compliance with procedures to determine the defendant's predicate felony status, rather than the legality of the sentence itself (see People v Leon, 200 AD3d 717, 717; People v Haynes, 70 AD3d 718, 719).
BARROS, J.P., WARHIT, LANDICINO and LOVE, JJ., concur.
ENTER:Darrell M. Joseph
Clerk of the Court
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