People v. Williams

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (Rosenwasser, J), rendered January 9, 2004, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s challenge to the validity of his plea based on the alleged ineffective assistance of his counsel is unpreserved for appellate review because he did not move to withdraw his plea on that basis before the court of first instance (see People v *840Clarke, 93 NY2d 904, 905 [1999]; People v Pellegrino, 60 NY2d 636, 637 [1983]; People v…