Opinion
June 8, 1999.
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Nicholas Iacovetta, J.).
Defendant's claim that the court erroneously accepted his guilty plea without conducting an appropriate inquiry into his possible intoxication defense is unpreserved for appellate review because he failed to move to either withdraw the plea or vacate the conviction and he does not fall within the narrow exception to the preservation doctrine ( see, People v. Lopez, 71 N.Y.2d 662, 666). In any event, the court made a suitable inquiry when an intoxication defense was suggested during the allocution, and nothing in the allocution casts doubt on defendant's guilt or the voluntariness of his plea.
Concur — Williams, J.P., Wallach, Andrias and Friedman, JJ.