People v. Bethea

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie G. Wittner, J.), rendered January 15, 2015, as amended May 8, 2015, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

Supreme Court did not err in denying defendant’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea at the sentencing hearing. The record establishes that defendant entered the plea knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily. Defendant’s contrary argument, raised for the first time on this appeal, is unpreserved and we…