| People v Trimble |
| 2016 NY Slip Op 02386 [137 AD3d 1309] |
| March 30, 2016 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
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| The People of the State of New York,Respondent, v Anthony Trimble, Appellant. |
Thomas R. Villecco, Jericho, NY, for appellant, and appellant pro se.
Madeline Singas, District Attorney, Mineola, NY (Andrea M. DiGregorio andDonald Berk of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County(Honorof, J.), rendered August 8, 2013, convicting him of attempted criminal possessionof a weapon in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's contention that his plea of guilty was involuntary and coercedbecause the Supreme Court refused to assign him new counsel is without merit. Contraryto the defendant's contention, he was not entitled to new assigned counsel since he failedto show good cause for a substitution (see People v Wright, 95 AD3d 1046 [2012]; People v Silva, 15 AD3d263 [2005]). Furthermore, nothing that occurred during the plea allocution calledinto question the voluntariness of the defendant's plea (see People v Wright, 95AD3d at 1047). The defendant's contention that defense counsel's ineffectivenesscoerced him into pleading guilty is contradicted by his statements made during the pleaproceeding that he was satisfied with counsel's representation, that he had not beenforced into pleading guilty, and that he was entering the plea freely and voluntarily (see People v Bennett, 115AD3d 973 [2014]; People vHoward, 109 AD3d 487, 488 [2013]).
The defendant's valid waiver of his right to appeal precludes appellate review of thecontentions raised in his pro se supplemental brief (see People v Hansen, 95NY2d 227, 233 [2000]; Peoplev Woods, 115 AD3d 997, 998 [2014]; People v Devodier, 102 AD3d 884, 885 [2013]; Peoplev Wright, 95 AD3d at 1047; People v Wager, 34 AD3d 505, 506 [2006]). Dillon, J.P.,Dickerson, Austin and Duffy, JJ., concur.