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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Reynaldo Lopez, Appellant.
    [784 NYS2d 857]
   Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Harold Adler, J.), rendered September 9, 2003, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 12 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s constitutional challenge to the procedure under which he was sentenced as a persistent violent felony offender is unpreserved for appellate review and, in any event, is without merit (see People v Rosen, 96 NY2d 329 [2001], cert denied 534 US 899 [2001]). Defendant’s mandatorily enhanced sentence was based solely on his prior convictions and involved no discretionary component (see Almendarez-Torres v United States, 523 US 224 [1998]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Ellerin, Williams, Lerner and Catterson, JJ.