People v. Smith

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Columbia County (Zittell, J.), rendered May *97813, 1991, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of absconding from temporary release in the first degree.

Defendant claims that County Court should have held a hearing concerning the sufficiency of his plea allocution. He bases this claim on a letter written to the court subsequent to his plea in which he asserts his innocence and expresses his dissatisfaction with counsel. Initially, we note that insofar as defendant never specifically moved prior to sentencing or made a postverdict…