Opinion
June 30, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J.).
Defendant knowingly and voluntarily pleaded guilty and the record belies his claim that the court coerced him into entering the plea. The court's figurative description of defendant's sentence exposure conveyed, in essence, the potential long-term sentence faced by defendant. Defendant's motion to withdraw his plea was properly denied without a hearing since the record establishes that defendant received effective assistance of counsel in connection with his guilty plea ( see, People v. Ford, 86 N.Y.2d 397, 404) and since the submission of his two written motions and his appearance at sentencing provided ample opportunity to be heard ( People v. Williams, 210 A.D.2d 161).
Defendant was properly sentenced as a persistent violent felony offender ( see, CPL 400.15; 400.16).
Concur — Ellerin, J. P., Tom, Mazzarelli and Saxe, JJ.