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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Darryl Jones, Appellant.
    [878 NYS2d 891]
   Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Micki A. Scherer, J., at plea; Edward J. McLaughlin, J., at sentence), entered July 19, 2005, convicting defendant of sodomy in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to a term of 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The sentencing court properly exercised its discretion in adjudicating defendant a persistent felony offender, and that adjudication was not unconstitutional (see People v Quinones, 12 NY3d 116 [2009]). Concur—Catterson, J.P., McGuire, Moskowitz, DeGrasse and Freedman, JJ.