People v. Contreras

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Tejada, J.), rendered March 10, 1993, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea was properly denied without a hearing. Defendant’s contention that he pleaded guilty because he was pressured by his attorney to do so, which was raised through his new attorney’s affirmation and his own affidavit and oral statements, in support of his…