People v. Flipping

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph J. Cohen, J.), rendered June 24, 1994, convicting defendant, upon a plea of guilty, of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 1 1/2 to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant challenges his adjudication as a predicate felony offender on the basis of a Pennsylvania conviction for an offense which, he contends, has a less stringent mens rea require*651ment, and thus is broader than its New York counterpart and cannot serve as a predicate felony for enhanced…