Defendant was properly sentenced as a second felony offender based on a Pennsylvania drug conviction, and the court properly denied defendant's CPL 440.20 motion challenging that adjudication. We adhere to our prior holdings that the statute at issue (35 Pa Cons Stat § 780-113[a][30]) criminalizes several discrete acts, so that it is permissible to determine, based on the accusatory instrument, that the conviction involved heroin and was the equivalent of a New York...
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