People v. Bell

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.), rendered March 18, 1997, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant failed to preserve his appellate challenge to his second felony offender status (People v Smith, 73 NY2d 961), and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. Were we to review this claim, we would find that defendant was properly adjudicated a second felony offender…