People v. McGovern

—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of two counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree (Penal Law § 170.25) and one count of attempted grand larceny in the third degree (Penal Law §§ 110.00, 155.35). By failing to move to withdraw his guilty plea or to vacate the judgment of conviction, defendant failed to preserve for our review his challenge to the sufficiency of the plea allocution (see, People v Lopez, 71 NY2d 662, 665). We reject defendant’s contention that this is one of those “rare case” exceptions…