People v. Watkins

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Micki Scherer, J.), rendered February 26, 1997, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

We find defendant’s guilty plea to be knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily entered, and that his motion to withdraw the plea was properly denied. The record fails to support defendant’s claim that his plea was coerced by a threat by the court that in the event of a conviction after trial it would impose a…