People v LaSalle

People v LaSalle 2009 NY Slip Op 05603 [64 AD3d 402] July 2, 2009 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Morris LaSalle, Appellant.

—[*1] Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Sara Gurwitch of counsel), for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York (David P. Stromes of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (James A. Yates, J.), rendered February 22, 2007, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted burglary 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 constitutional challenge to the procedure under which he was sentenced as a persistent violent felony offender is without merit (see Almendarez-Torres v United States, 523 US 224 [1998]). Concur—Gonzalez, P.J., Tom, Mazzarelli, Andrias and Saxe, JJ.