As the People concede, defendant was improperly adjudicated a second felony offender. In determining that defendant's Massachusetts conviction was for the equivalent of a New York felony, the sentencing court improperly relied upon factual recitals contained in a different count of the Massachusetts accusatory instrument from the count upon which defendant had actually been convicted (see People v Muniz,
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