Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, vacating the sentence imposed thereon, and dismissing that count of the indictment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.
As the defendant argues and the People correctly concede, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree is a lesser-included offense of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (see
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