People v. Cloyce

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Andrias, J.), rendered August 12, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 21h to 5 years, unanimously affirmed.

We reject defendant’s contention that his arraignment on the People’s allegation of a prior conviction was procedurally improper. It is true that CPL 200.60 (3) provides that the court *330must arraign a defendant on a special information charging conviction on a previous offense "before the close of the people’s…