People v. Bruington

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J.), rendered June 20, 1990, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of SVi to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Since defendant did not seek to withdraw the plea at sentence, his present claim that the plea should be vacated in the interest of justice is not preserved (People v Pellegrino, 60 NY2d 636). In any event, it is not necessary that a defendant admit guilt to enter a plea, provided the plea…