Defendant argues that he was constitutionally entitled to a jury trial on the attempted sexual misconduct charge, even though it is a class B misdemeanor carrying a maximum sentence of 90 days, because the added consequence of registration as a sex offender allegedly takes the crime out of the petty offense category. However, at trial defendant raised a completely different argument, in which he made the unavailing (see People v Urbaez,
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