Judgment unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed and defendant remanded to Niagara County Court for resentencing, in accordance with the following memorandum: Defendant's conviction for escape in the second degree (Penal Law § 205.10 [2]) cannot be sustained because the People failed to prove that at the time of defendant's escape he had been lawfully arrested for a felony (People v Jeffries,
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