Opinion
May 7, 1999
Appeal from Judgment of Onondaga County Court, Mulroy, J. — Robbery, 1st Degree.
Present — Denman, P. J., Hayes, Wisner, Hurlbutt and Callahan, JJ.
Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon a plea of guilty of robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15). By failing to move to withdraw the guilty plea or to vacate the judgment of conviction, defendant failed to preserve for our review his challenge to the sufficiency of the plea allocution ( see, People v. Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 665; People v. Hill [appeal No. 1], 254 A.D.2d 726, lv denied 92 N.Y.2d 1050). We reject defendant's contention that this is one of those rare case exceptions to the preservation rule; the plea allocution did not engender significant doubt regarding defendant's guilt ( see, People v. Toxey, 86 N.Y.2d 725, rearg denied 86 N.Y.2d 839).