People v. Singleton

Judgment of resentence, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Bart Stone, J.), rendered June 30, 2005, resentencing defendant, upon his conviction of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, as a second felony drug offender whose prior felony conviction was a violent felony, to a term of 18 years, unanimously affirmed.

In resentencing defendant pursuant to the 2004 Drug Law Reform Act, the court properly adjudicated defendant a “second felony drug offender whose prior felony conviction was a violent *503felony” (Penal Law § 70.71 [4] [b]). The predicate felony was a 1981…