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The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Walter Branch, Appellant.
    [732 NYS2d 345]
   —Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered March 26, 1998, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of assault 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 appellate argument that he was improperly adjudicated a persistent violent felony offender became moot when defendant was re-adjudicated a persistent violent felony offender using a new information that fully complied with CPL 400:16.

The arguments raised in defendant’s pro se supplemental brief are entirely unsubstantiated and are based on factual assertions dehors the record (see, People v Kinchen, 60 NY2d 772). The existing record establishes that defendant received meaningful representation and that his plea was voluntary. Concur — Rosenberger, J. P., Tom, Rubin, Buckley and Marlow, JJ.