People v. Cooks

Appeal by the defendant from an amended judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Honorof, J.), rendered January 11, 2012, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the amended judgment is affirmed.

The Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discre*735tion in denying, without a hearing, the defendant’s motions to withdraw his plea of guilty. The defendant’s unsupported and conclusory allegations that defense counsel failed to investigate and uncover potentially exculpatory evidence did…