People v. Goodman

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (D’Emic, J.), rendered December 2, 1998, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

*570Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the defendant’s motion to withdraw his previously-entered plea of guilty without holding a hearing (see, CPL 220.60 [3]; People v Frederick, 45 NY2d 520; People v Tinsley, 35 NY2d 926). The defendant’s bare claim of innocence was unsubstantiated and refuted by…