People v. Dowell

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard Fried, J.), rendered June 27, 1994, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of bribe receiving in the third degree, and sentencing him to 5 years probation and 200 hours of community service, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s motion to withdraw his plea was properly denied. The assertions that his allocution negated certain elements of the crime to which he pleaded guilty, and that his statements at sentencing evinced a claim of innocence which *243should have caused the court to inquire further into whether the plea was entered…