Opinion
October 27, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Frederic Berman, J.).
Defendant's claim that a hearing should have been held on his application to withdraw his plea is unpreserved and we decline to review it in the interest of justice ( People v. Vasquez, 242 A.D.2d 452), Were we to review it, we would find that, after sufficient inquiry, the court properly exercised its discretion when it denied the application to withdraw the plea made on the basis of the codefendant's belated efforts to exculpate defendant, amounting to nothing more than a recantation of the codefendant's own plea allocution ( People v. Brown, 126 A.D.2d 898, 899-900, lv denied 70 N.Y.2d 703).
Concur — Milonas, J. P., Ellerin, Wallach and Tom, JJ.