People v. Bond

In proceedings pursuant to CPL 400.21 to determine whether the defendant shall be sentenced as a second felony offender under section 70.06 of the Penal Law in consequence of a felony conviction prior to the effective date of those statutes and his present conviction of a class D felony for a crime committed after such date, he argues that his prior conviction may not ibe treated as one for a predicate felony under those sections because it was the product of, firstly, a plea bargain in which he pleaded guilty to a felony with the understanding that he be subjected to only a misdemeanor *414senten…