People v. Wood

Appeal by the defendant from a *412judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Delin, J.), rendered December 11, 1987, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We reject the defendant’s contention that he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel. The claim that defense counsel coerced the defendant into pleading guilty is belied by the defendant’s admission, during the plea proceeding, that he had discussed possible defenses with his attorney and was entering a guilty plea because he believed it…