People v. Owen

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Angiolillo, J.), rendered February 21, 1997, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The County Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the defendant’s motion to vacate his plea of guilty (see, CPL 220.60 [3]; People v Ellerbe, 237 AD2d 299). The defendant’s bare assertion that he was coerced by his attorney into entering the plea agreement was flatly refuted by the record of the plea proceeding…