The record establishes that defendant was adjudicated as a persistent violent felony offender and that he received a sentence that would only be lawful upon such an adjudication. However, by failing to specify the subdivision of Penal Law § 265.02 applicable to defendant's prior conviction of attempted criminal possession of a weapon, the People's information failed to establish that this conviction qualified as a violent felony (see Penal Law § 70...
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