Defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on his counsel's failure to challenge the use of an out-of-state conviction to elevate a misdemeanor to a felony charge is unreviewable on direct appeal, because the record does not explain counsel's reasons for declining to raise such a challenge (see People v Diaz,
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