Sentence reversed, on the law, and case remitted to Criminal Term for further proceedings consistent herewith.
The sentencing minutes do not indicate compliance with CPL 400.21, i.e., a judicial finding of a prior predicate felony (see, People v Owens, 58 A.D.2d 898). The record does not disclose that defendant admitted the existence of a prior felony conviction, and the error was, therefore, not harmless (cf. People v Bouyea, 64 N.Y.2d 1140).
Furthermore, the record of the plea proceedings discloses some confusion as to whether defendant was to be sentenced as a second or a first felony offender upon conviction of robbery in the second degree, a class C violent offense (see, Penal Law § 70.02 [b]). While the court advised defendant that he faced a minimum of one half the maximum imposed, thus indicating that defendant would be sentenced as a second felony offender (see, Penal Law § 70.06 [b]), the court also advised defendant of the maximum range applicable to a first felony offender (see, Penal Law § 70.02 [a]; [3] [b]).
Accordingly, the question of whether a proper minimum sentence had been imposed should be reviewed upon resentencing. Mollen, P.J., Lazer, Mangano and Gibbons, JJ., concur.