After a sufficient inquiry, the court properly denied defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea, without a hearing and without appointment of new counsel. The record establishes that a favorable and voluntary plea was entered after a thorough allocution, that defendant's claim that he was misinformed by counsel as to the charge to which he pleaded guilty (a violation instead of a class A felony) was patently meritless, and that the court rejected this claim prior to...
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