People v. Niaze

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Cowhey, J.), rendered February 6, 1992, convicting him of robbery in the second degree and assault in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We find that the defendant’s contention that he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel at sentencing is without merit. At sentencing, the defendant moved pro se to withdraw his plea of guilty. The basis for the defendant’s motion was a matter dehors the record, i.e., his father’s insistence that…