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No. 218 SSM 23
The People &c.,
             Respondent,
        v.
Larry Brown,
             Appellant.




          Submitted by Claudia B. Flores, for appellant.
          Submitted by John T. Hughes, for respondent.




MEMORANDUM:
          The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
          Defendant's claims regarding the voluntariness of his
plea lack merit, and the Appellate Division properly affirmed the
trial court's denial of defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty


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plea.
            Additionally, defendant was sentenced as a first felony
offender to a lawful prison term, 2 1/3 to 7 years, for such an
offender.   Defendant's new argument on this appeal -- contrary to
his assertion to the plea court -- that his status as a first
felony offender is erroneous; that, thus, his sentence is illegal
as a matter of law; and that he must be resentenced as a second
felony offender, is not established on this record.       Accordingly,
his request for resentencing, made for the first time on this
direct appeal, fails, without prejudice to defendant, if he be so
advised, moving pursuant to CPL 440.20 for re-sentencing.
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On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules,
order affirmed, in a memorandum. Chief Judge DiFiore and Judges
Pigott, Rivera, Abdus-Salaam, Stein, Fahey and Garcia concur.

Decided October 20, 2016




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