Court Opinion

ID: 5683126
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 15:04:03.695788+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:39:56.754006
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— Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Edward M. Davidowitz, J.), rendered January 10, 2003, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, *290of burglary in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 20 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 mandatory sentence was based entirely on his criminal record (see Almendarez-Torres v United States, 523 US 224 [1998]). Concur — Buckley, P.J., Tom, Saxe, Friedman and Sweeny, JJ.