People v. Dowicyan

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Rockland County (Resnik, J.), rendered November 12, 2002, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he did not knowingly and voluntarily enter his plea of guilty. However, his claim is unpreserved for appellate review since he failed to move either to withdraw his plea or to vacate the judgment of conviction (see People v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662, 665 [1988]; People v Randall, 295 AD2d 453, 454 [2002]; People v Harrell,…