People v Caldwell

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People v Caldwell 2010 NY Slip Op 05669 [74 AD3d 676] June 24, 2010 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Robert Caldwell, Appellant.

—[*1] Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Carol A. Zeldin of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Ellen Stanfield Friedman of counsel), for respondent.

Judgments, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles H. Solomon, J.), rendered July 24, 2008, convicting defendant, upon his pleas of guilty, of attempted robbery in the second degree and bail jumping in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 12 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant's challenge to the constitutionality of his persistent violent felony offender adjudication is without merit (see Almendarez-Torres v United States, 523 US 224 [1998]; People v Leon, 10 NY3d 122, 126 [2008], cert denied 554 US —, 128 S Ct 2976 [2008]). Concur—Saxe, J.P., Friedman, Nardelli, Moskowitz and Richter, JJ.

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