People v. Strange

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey Atlas, J.), rendered February 4, 1991, which convicted defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentenced him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim that his pretrial arraignment on the special information (CPL 200.60) renders the proof of the prior conviction insufficient is unpreserved, and were we to reach it in the interest of justice, we would find it lacks merit (People v Cooper, 78 NY2d 476).

Defendant also claims that the…