People v. Mendez

*697Appeal by the defendant, by permission, from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Mangano, Jr., J.), dated October 17, 2007, which denied, without a hearing, his motion pursuant to CPL 440.10 to vacate a judgment of the same court rendered March 23, 2007, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (three counts), robbery in the second degree (three counts), and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the order is affirmed.

The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying, without a…