People v. Taylor

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Steven Lloyd Barrett, J.), rendered September 11, 2013, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of assault in the first degree and attempted conspiracy in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 18 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly adjudicated defendant a second violent felony offender, because, as we have repeatedly held in cases presenting the same issue, a conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree pursuant to former Penal Law § 265.02 (4) qualifies…