Opinion
October 16, 1995
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Garry, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying, without conducting an evidentiary hearing, the defendant's motion to withdraw his plea of guilty (see, People v Frederick, 45 N.Y.2d 520; People v. Tinsley, 35 N.Y.2d 926; People v. Zaia, 181 A.D.2d 931). Neither the defendant's bare assertions of innocence nor his vague and conclusory claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was sufficient to justify setting aside the plea of guilty (see, People v. Richardson, 214 A.D.2d 624; People v. Woodard, 208 A.D.2d 411; People v. Hall, 195 A.D.2d 521). Balletta, J.P., Rosenblatt, Pizzuto, Joy and Altman, JJ., concur.