Yesawich Jr., J.
Defendant claims that he was improperly sentenced as a persistent violent felony offender (see, Penal Law § 70.08) because his 1987 predicate felony conviction was jurisdictionally defective. The criminal action out of which that conviction arose was commenced by the filing of a felony complaint charging defendant with the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, a class B felony. After defendant's arraignment...
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