Defendant was properly sentenced as a second violent felony offender, and his CPL 440.20 motion to set aside the sentence was properly denied. A review of defendant's Virginia indictment clearly establishes that his conviction in that state was for the equivalent of a New York violent felony (see People v Gonzalez,
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