Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Allen Proctor, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2017-12-14
Citations: 156 A.D.3d 513
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Allen Proctor, Appellant.
Judges: Concur—Friedman, J.P., Kahn, Gesmer, Kern and Moulton, JJ.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 156
Pages: 513–514

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Allen Proctor, Appellant.
[65 NYS3d 442]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ronald A. Zweibel, J.), rendered April 27, 2012, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of five years, unanimously affirmed.
The court providently exercised its discretion in denying de-, fendant's motion to withdraw his plea. "When a defendant moves to withdraw a guilty plea, the nature and extent of the fact-finding inquiry rest[s] largely in the discretion of the Judge to whom the motion is made and a hearing will be granted only in rare instances" (People v Brown, 14 NY3d 113, 116 [2010] [internal quotation marks omitted]). Defendant received a full opportunity to present his challenges to the plea.
The plea record shows that defendant knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily pleaded guilty in exchange for a favorable sentence (see People v Fiumefreddo, 82 NY2d 536, 543 [1993]). The sentencing court had sufficient information to determine that defendant's claims of innocence and ineffective assistance were meritless and warranted neither a hearing nor the assignment of new counsel (see e.g. People v Mangum, 12 AD3d 207 [2004], lv denied 4 NY3d 765 [2005]). In particular, defendant's central claim that he had a viable justification defense was undermined by his admission in his plea allocution that he committed an assault in the course of committing a felony.
We have considered and rejected defendant's remaining claims.
Concur—Friedman, J.P., Kahn, Gesmer, Kern and Moulton, JJ.