People v Stepter, 2009 NY Slip Op 08148 [67 AD3d 497]

November 12, 2009

Appellate Division, First Department

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Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (William A. Loeb of counsel), for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York (Allen J. Vickey of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward J. McLaughlin, J.), rendered February 7, 2008, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to concurrent terms of eight years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s challenge to his sentence is of a type that requires preservation ( see People v Samms , 95 NY2d 52, 53-57 [2000]), and we decline to review this unpreserved claim in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we find that defendant’s out of state conviction qualified as a predicate felony conviction.

We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence. Concur—Gonzalez, P.J., Andrias, Saxe, Renwick and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ..