People v. Townsend

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena Uviller, J.), rendered May 30, 1995, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 5V2 to 11 years, unanimously affirmed.

Since defendant’s motion to withdraw his plea was made on different grounds, his claim that his plea was rendered involuntary by the court’s failure to inquire about the affirmative defense to robbery in the first degree is unpreserved for appellate review (People v Rafael, 243 AD2d 277, lv denied 91 NY2d 836), and…