Opinion
March 3, 1994
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Felice K. Shea, J.).
Defendant's challenge to the plea allocution is not preserved as a matter of law since he failed to move to withdraw his plea or vacate the judgment of conviction (People v. Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 665). Were we to reach the claim in the interest of justice, we would find it to be without merit. There is no "uniform mandatory catechism of pleading defendants", only that it be demonstrable that the plea was voluntary, knowing, and intelligent (People v. Nixon, 21 N.Y.2d 338, 353, cert denied sub nom. Robinson v. New York, 393 U.S. 1067), which is shown by a review of the minutes herein. "The fact that defendant did not recite all the elements of the crime did not render the plea invalid" (People v. Galvan, 197 A.D.2d 394, 395).
Concur — Murphy, P.J., Ellerin, Kupferman and Nardelli, JJ.