Upon being convicted of the crime of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, petitioner was sentenced as a persistent felony offender to a term of 10 years to life in prison. He commenced this habeas corpus proceeding challenging his sentence as illegal on the ground that he should not have been sentenced as a persistent felony offender. Inasmuch as petitioner's argument could have been raised on direct appeal or via a CPL article 440 motion, we agree with Supreme...
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