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

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Terry Patterson, Appellant.
    [709 NYS2d 559]
   Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.), rendered June 26, 1997, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly sentenced defendant as a second felony offender. During the proceedings concerning defendant’s alleged second felony offender status, there was no dispute that he was convicted under a particular statutory subdivision relating exclusively to cocaine (NC Gen Stat Annot § 90-95 [h] [3]). Therefore, the People were not required to produce the North Carolina accusatory instrument for the purpose of ruling out the possibility that defendant was convicted of a marihuana offense that would not be a felony in New York. The statute in question, as judicially interpreted (see, People v Sailor, 65 NY2d 224, 237, cert denied 474 US 982), contains an element of scienter and is in all other respects the equivalent of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (see, State v Weldon, 314 NC 401, 333 SE2d 701). We have considered and rejected defendant’s remaining contentions. Concur — Williams, J. P., Tom, Lerner, Andrias and Friedman, JJ.