Opinion
June 12, 1997
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Bronx County (David Stadtmauer, J.).
The court properly denied defendant's application to withdraw his plea of guilty, since the plea was clearly voluntary and defendant's self-serving allegations of coercion were baseless. The court properly declined to grant defendant's applications for assignment of new counsel prior to the guilty plea ( see, People v. Sides, 75 N.Y.2d 822).
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Rosenberger, Wallach, Rubin and Andrias, JJ.