People v. Blanding

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel P. FitzGerald, J.), rendered June 21, 2013, convicting defendant, upon his guilty plea, of attempted assault in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 7V2 years, and order (same court and Justice), entered on or about June 13, 2014, denying defendant’s CPL 440.10 motion to vacate his conviction, unanimously affirmed.

Because defendant’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea was premised on completely different grounds from those he asserts on appeal, his present claim that his plea was coerced by the…