The court properly adjudicated defendant a second felony offender. Regardless of any state law issues presented by defendant's predicate felony conviction, that conviction was not "obtained in violation of [defendant's rights] under the applicable provisions of the constitution of the United States" (CPL 400.21 [7] [b]).
After sufficient inquiry (see People v Frederick,
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