Defendant's conviction of burglary under South Carolina Code Annotated § 16-11-312 (A) did not qualify as a predicate felony to enhance defendant's sentence because the South Carolina statute does not contain all of the essential elements of a comparable New York felony. To be guilty of burglary in the second degree in New York, a defendant must knowingly enter or remain unlawfully in a dwelling with the intent to commit a crime therein (Penal Law § 140.25 [2])...
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