Opinion
[668 N.Y.S.2d 868]Daniel L. Greenberg, New York City (Katheryne M. Martone, of counsel) for appellant.
Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney of Bronx County (Karen Swiger and Karin R. Vandevenne, of counsel), for respondent.
Before McCOOE, J.P., and FREEDMAN and DAVIS, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Judgment of conviction rendered July 17, 1995 (Megan Tallmer, J.) affirmed.
Criminal Court did not abuse its discretion in rejecting the defendant's proposed plea arrangement based upon an unauthorized sentence (see, People v. Bartley, 60 A.D.2d 283, 401 N.Y.S.2d 71, aff'd 47 N.Y.2d 965, 419 N.Y.S.2d 956, 393 N.E.2d 1029) or in refusing to entertain any further plea offers when, following the close of the People's case, no fewer than three attempts to allocute defendant on a permissible plea agreement had proven unsuccessful (see generally, People v. Selikoff, 35 N.Y.2d 227, 235, 360 N.Y.S.2d 623, 318 N.E.2d 784, cert. denied 419 U.S. 1122, 95 S.Ct. 806, 42 L.Ed.2d 822; People v. Nixon, 21 N.Y.2d 338, 351, 287 N.Y.S.2d 659, 234 N.E.2d 687; compare, People v. Compton, 157 A.D.2d 903, 550 N.Y.S.2d 148, lv. denied 75 N.Y.2d 918, 555 N.Y.S.2d 36, 554 N.E.2d 73).
Defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of the trial evidence is unpreserved for review (People v. Gray, 86 N.Y.2d 10, 629 N.Y.S.2d 173, 652 N.E.2d 919) and, in any event, without merit. Upon an independent review of the facts, we find that the verdict was not against the weight of the evidence.