People v. Williams

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.), rendered May 20, 1993, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s bare claims of innocence of the crime charged and ignorance and confusion of the consequences of pleading guilty did not warrant more extensive fact-finding procedures prerequisite to the disposition of defendant’s pro se motion to withdraw his plea of guilty, where the record of the plea…