Opinion
September 23, 1985
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.).
Judgment affirmed.
As defendant correctly concedes, she has failed to preserve for appellate review her challenge to the plea allocution (see, People v Claudio, 64 N.Y.2d 858). To preserve such a claim for appellate review on a direct appeal from a judgment of conviction, a defendant must move to set aside his plea pursuant to CPL 220.60 (3) prior to the imposition of sentence.
In the absence of unusual circumstances not here present, we see no reason to exercise our authority to review in the interest of justice an unpreserved claim that the plea allocution was insufficient. Nor does there exist any reason to set aside the sentence imposed, which was agreed to in the course of plea negotiations (see, People v Kazepis, 101 A.D.2d 816). Lazer, J.P., O'Connor, Weinstein and Niehoff, JJ., concur.