Defendant contends that he was wrongly adjudicated a persistent violent felony offender because one of the convictions on which it was based was unconstitutionally obtained. However, because defendant failed to challenge his 1983 conviction at the 1988 sentencing or demonstrate good cause for such failure, he waived any future challenge to the constitutionality of the 1983 conviction for sentence enhancement purposes (CPL 400.21 [7] [b]; [8]) and, since the nature of the...
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