People v. Armstrong

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie G. Wittner, J.), rendered October 6, 2006, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of seven years, unanimously affirmed.

In 1988, defendant pleaded guilty to first-degree burglary, and was adjudicated a second felony offender based on a 1985 New Jersey conviction. On appeal (167 AD2d 108 [1990], lv denied 77 NY2d 903 [1991]), this Court rejected defendant’s claim that the New Jersey conviction was not the equivalent of a New York felony. In…