People v. Parsons

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Davis, J.), rendered January 10, 1980 convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of attempted robbery in the third degree and sentencing him as a second felony offender to a term of IV2 to 3 years, is affirmed. The question that divides the court relates to the authentication of the record of defendant’s prior conviction *511in the Puerto Rican court as evidence of a predicate felony requiring a second felony offender sentence in the New York State court. The record of conviction is obviously a record of the Puerto Rico Superior Court bearing the seal…