It was error, as the People concede, to receive unauthenticated documentation of defendant's purported conviction of a drug violation in Puerto Rico. The certificates of conviction, while attested to, lacked the certificate, under seal, that the attestor was the legal custodian of the records and that his signature was genuine as is required by CPLR 4540 (subd [c]). The fingerprint record did not clearly indicate that it related to the challenged conviction and, in any event...
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