People v. Robertson

—Appeal from *313judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert Adler-berg, J.), rendered April 12, 2000, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, held in abeyance, and the matter remanded for a predicate felony hearing.

Prior to sentencing, defendant asserted, with sufficient specificity, that his Maryland conviction was obtained unconstitutionally due to the lack of effective assistance of counsel. Defendant also maintains that the crime he…