People v. Torres
Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Franklin Weissberg, J., at suppression hearing; Alvin Schlesinger, J., at plea and sentence), rendered June 24, 1996, convicting defendant of attempted burglary in the second degree and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 6 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
Appellate review of the suppression ruling is foreclosed by defendant’s valid waiver of his right to appeal. As a result of defendant’s use of aliases and misrepresentation of his prior record, defendant was originally promised a sentence available only for a first felony offender, but that promise was properly revoked when defendant’s true status as a persistent violent felony offender was revealed. The court’s imposition of a lawful, enhanced sentence was appropriate and is not challenged on appeal. Accordingly, we find that the enhancement does not
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