Opinion
August 23, 1999.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Martin, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The sentencing court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying, without a hearing, the defendant's motion to withdraw his plea of guilty. The defendant's assertion that he did not receive the effective assistance of counsel was vague and conclusory ( see, People v. Suggs, 220 A.D.2d 630; People v. Carter, 191 A.D.2d 640, 641). It is also contradicted by the record of the plea allocution, as he admitted that he had not been coerced into entering his guilty plea, but was pleading guilty because he was, in fact, guilty ( see, People v. DeLeon, 254 A.D.2d 430; People v. Richardson, 214 A.D.2d 624; People v. Zaia, 181 A.D.2d 931; People v. Williams, 178 A.D.2d 570).
S. Miller, J. P., Sullivan, Friedmann and Feuerstein. JJ., concur.