People v. Gonzalez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dora Irizarry, J.), rendered June 4, 2001, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of burglary in the first and second degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 8 years and 5 years, unanimously affirmed.

Since defendant’s request for leniency at sentencing did not constitute a motion to withdraw his guilty plea, his challenges to the voluntariness of his plea are unpreserved (People v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662 [1988]), and we decline to review them in the interest of justice. Were we to review these claims, we…