Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
"The defendant's waiver of his right to appeal precludes appellate review of his [contention] that he was denied effective assistance of counsel except to the extent that the alleged ineffective assistance of counsel [may have] affected the voluntariness of his plea" ( People v Rossetti, 55 AD3d 637, 638; People v McCollum, 54 AD3d 690; People v Perez, 51 AD3d 1043). Moreover, "[b]y pleading guilty, the defendant forfeited . . . his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel which do not directly involve the bargaining process" ( People v Russell, 58 AD3d 759, 760; People v DeLuca, 45 AD3d 777; People v Turner, 40 AD3d 1018, 1019). With respect to the defendant's contention that his plea of guilty was coerced as a result of the alleged ineffectiveness of his trial counsel, "`[a] motion to withdraw a plea of guilty is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court'" ( People v Gedin, 46 AD3d 701, quoting People v Levy, 39 AD3d 670, 671; see CPL 220.60; People v Alexander, 97 NY2d 482, 485). "The defendant's [contention] that his plea of guilty was coerced as a result of the alleged ineffectiveness of his trial counsel is belied by [the record]" ( People v Gedin, 46 AD3d at 701; People v Gutierrez, 35 AD3d 883). Accordingly, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the defendant's application to withdraw his plea of guilty.