People v. Bess

Judgment, Supreme *264Court, Bronx County (Nicholas Iacovetta, J.), rendered March 19, 2001, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 44/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s application to withdraw his guilty plea. Defendant’s claim that he was under the influence of drugs when he took the plea was belied by the transcript of his allocution and the court’s own clear recollection of defendant’s demeanor and responses (see People v…