People v. Baynard

On these appeals, defendant contends that his pleas of guilty should be vacated because he was not advised at the taking of the pleas that he had a “right to cross-examine the People’s witnesses”. Having failed either to move to withdraw his pleas on this ground prior to the imposition of sentence or to vacate the judgments pursuant to CPL 440.10, defendant has not preserved for appellate review the sufficiency of the plea allocutions (see, CPL 470.05 [2]; People v Pellegrino, 60 NY2d 636; People v De Santis, 108 AD2d 821). Moreover, were we to review this issue in the interest of justice,…