The court properly adjudicated defendant a second felony drug offender based on defendant's North Carolina conviction for breaking and entering and his federal conviction for robbery under the Hobbs Act (see Penal Law §§ 70.70[1][b]; 70.06 [1][b][i]).
New York courts use a "strict equivalency" standard to determine if a statute in a foreign jurisdiction qualifies as a predicate felony in New York (People v Helms,
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