People v. Bowden

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jay Gold, J.), rendered May 23, 1990, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of three counts of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to concurrent prison terms of 3 to 6 years on each count, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly denied defendant’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea without a hearing. At sentencing, defendant stated that he had been told that it would be "stupid” to take his cases to trial, but he did not establish that this blunt advice in any way coerced him…