A court considering a CPL 440.10 motion challenging the validity of a plea and raising the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel must be guided by certain principles. The "longstanding test for determining the validity of a guilty plea is whether the plea represents a voluntary and intelligent choice among the alternative courses of action open to the defendant" (Hill v Lockhart,
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