Opinion
November 24, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.).
By not moving to withdraw his plea or vacate the judgment, defendant has failed to preserve his present challenge to the factual recitation accompanying his guilty plea to tampering with physical evidence, and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. The exception to the preservation requirement ( see, People v. Toxey, 86 N.Y.2d 725) does not apply because the recitation does not cast significant doubt on defendant's guilt. The record as a whole reveals that defendant knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently pleaded guilty ( People v. McGowen, 42 N.Y.2d 905, 906).
Concur — Lerner, P. J., Williams, Tom and Andrias, JJ.