People v. Lee

221 A.D.2d 296, 635 N.Y.S.2d 468, 1995 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 12278

Opinion

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leslie Crocker Snyder, J.), rendered November 12, 1993, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 8⅓ years to life and 2⅓ to 7 years, respectively, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence on the conviction of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree to a term of 5 years to life and otherwise affirmed.

We find the sentence excessive to the extent indicated. Concur—Rosenberger, J. P., Rubin, Kupferman and Williams, JJ.