Opinion
December 27, 2000.
Appeal from Judgment of Oneida County Court, Dwyer, J. — Attempted Murder, 2nd Degree.
PRESENT: PIGOTT, JR., P. J., GREEN, PINE, KEHOE AND BALIO, JJ.
Judgment unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
Defendant failed to preserve for our review his contention that all of the counts of the indictment are duplicitous ( see, CPL 470.05; People v. Schultz, 266 A.D.2d 919, 919-920, lv denied 94 N.Y.2d 906), and we decline to exercise our power to review that contention as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice ( see, CPL 470.15 [a]). The verdict is not contrary to the weight of the evidence ( see, People v. Bleakley, 69 N.Y.2d 490, 495). County Court properly denied the motion of defendant to dismiss the indictment on the ground that he was denied an opportunity to testify before the Grand Jury. The District Attorney was not required to inform defendant of the prospective or pending Grand Jury proceeding because defendant had not been arraigned in a local criminal court upon a felony complaint which had not been disposed of in the local court ( see, CPL 190.50 [a]; People v. Simmons, 178 A.D.2d 972, lv denied 79 N.Y.2d 1007), and the moving papers do not contain sworn allegations of fact supporting the contention that defendant was prevented from communicating his desire to appear before the Grand Jury ( see, CPL 210.45, [6]). The court also properly denied defendant's motion to dismiss count three of the indictment based upon the People's failure to follow the procedure prescribed by CPL 200.60 (2) ( see, People v. Drumgoole, 234 A.D.2d 888, 890, lv denied 89 N.Y.2d 1011; see generally, People v. Giuliano, 52 A.D.2d 240, 243). Defendant was properly sentenced as a persistent violent felony offender. The certificates of conviction issued by the clerks of Chemung and Onondaga Counties constitute presumptive evidence of defendant's two prior violent felony convictions ( see, CPL 60.60; People v. Mezon, 228 A.D.2d 621, 622, lv denied 88 N.Y.2d 990), and the testimony of a State Police investigator concerning defendant's fingerprints established that defendant is the person named in those certificates ( see, CPL 60.60; cf., People v. Vollick, 148 A.D.2d 950, 951, affd 75 N.Y.2d 877). The sentence is not unduly harsh or severe. Finally, we reject the contention that defendant was denied his right to effective assistance of counsel ( see, People v. Baldi, 54 N.Y.2d 137, 147).