Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Franklin County (Main, Jr., J.), entered October 28, 1996, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of attempted promoting prison contraband in the first degree.
Defendant, a prison inmate, pleaded guilty to attempted promoting prison contraband in the first degree and waived his right to appeal all issues except for sentencing. Defendant was sentenced, as a second felony offender, according to the plea agreement to a prison term of IV2 to 3 years to be served consecutively to the prison term he was then serving. Defendant appeals arguing that, inter alia, the waiver of his right to appeal was not made knowingly, intelligently or voluntarily, he was denied effective assistance of counsel and the statute of which he was convicted was unconstitutional.
Initially, we note that defendant’s contentions that his waiver of his right to appeal was not voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently made and that he was denied effective assistance of counsel survive the waiver of his right to appeal inasmuch as the alleged deficiencies impacted his plea (see, People v Seaberg,
In regard to defendant’s contention that Penal Law §§ 205.00 and 205.25 are unconstitutional, this Court has previously held that the statutes are neither unconstitutionally vague (see, People v Rivera,
Cardona, P. J., Mercure, White and Spain, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
