People v. Vines

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Laura Ward, J.), rendered on April 1, 2013, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to a term of IV2 years, and order, same court and Justice, entered on or about April 2, 2014, which denied defendant’s CPL 440.20 motion to set aside the sentence, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim that his out-of-state felony conviction was not the equivalent of a New York felony, and thus could not serve as a predicate for enhanced…