PEOPLE v. KESSLER


5 A.D.3d 504 (2004)

772 N.Y.S.2d 582

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. LEON KESSLER, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

March 8, 2004.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's plea of guilty was knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily entered. The County Court therefore properly denied his motion to withdraw the plea without a hearing, as his conclusory allegations of coercion and ineffective assistance of counsel were contradicted by the record and insufficient to warrant vacatur of the plea (see People v Curras, 1 A.D.3d 445 [2003];

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