People v. Lezama

Appeal by the defendant, by permission, from an order of the *753County Court, Orange County (Freehill, J.), dated April 11, 2012, which denied, without a hearing, his motion pursuant to CPL 440.10 to vacate a judgment of the same court rendered December 2, 1996, convicting him of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the order is affirmed.

The defendant moved pursuant to CPL 440.10 to vacate his judgment of conviction on the ground that he was denied the right to the effective assistance of…