People v. Bernard

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Rienzi, J.), rendered December 15, 1997, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The decision of whether to permit a defendant to withdraw a previously entered plea of guilty rests within the sound discretion of the sentencing court (see, People v Brooks, 183 AD2d 722; People v Howard, 138 AD2d 525). Here, the sentencing court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the…