Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Stanley Dickerson, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-02-22
Citations: 201 A.D.2d 400
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Stanley Dickerson, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 201
Pages: 400–400

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Stanley Dickerson, Appellant.
[607 NYS2d 934]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Max Sayah, J.), rendered March 5, 1992, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 2 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
Since the felony complaint charged defendant with criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and not merely the lesser included attempted crime charged in the information to which defendant pleaded guilty, we think it plain that defendant committed a violent felony offense within the meaning of Penal Law § 70.02 (1) (d), and it should make no difference that defendant's waiver of prosecution by indictment resulted in his pleading to an information rather than an indictment. Accordingly, defendant was legally sentenced as a persistent violent felony offender. Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Ellerin, Asch and Tom, JJ.