Opinion
October 28, 1991
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kreindler, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The decision as to whether to permit a defendant to withdraw a previously entered plea of guilty rests within the sound discretion of the sentencing court (see, People v. Pettway, 140 A.D.2d 721; People v. Melendez, 135 A.D.2d 660). As a defendant may not withdraw a guilty plea by an unsupported assertion of innocence where the plea was voluntarily made with the advice of competent counsel following an appraisal of all the relevant facts (see, People v. Tannenbaum, 116 A.D.2d 677), we find that the sentencing court did not improvidently exercise its discretion when the defendant made a bald statement that he was "taking the weight for somebody else" and then refused to elaborate when asked to do so by the court. Bracken, J.P., Kunzeman, Eiber, Balletta and Ritter, JJ., concur.