People v. Wiggins

Judgment of resentence, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alexander W. Hunter, Jr., J.), rendered September 22, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the first degree, and resentencing him to a term of life without parole, modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to reduce the sentence to a term of 25 years to life, and otherwise affirmed.

■ We find nothing to indicate that the resentencing court misunderstood the purpose of the remand upon our prior modification (304 AD2d 322, 323 [2003], Iv denied 100 NY2d 625 [2003]). However, we are empowered to…