People v. Arnold

Appeal by defendant, as limited by his brief, from a sentence of the County Court, Suffolk County, imposed January 10, 1973, upon his plea of guilty of attempted burglary in the third degree (a felony) and attempted grand larceny in the third degree (a misdemeanor). Sentence modified, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by changing the sentence on the misdemeanor conviction to an unconditional discharge. As so modified, sentence affirmed. Defendant, an admitted drug addict, interposed two pleas of guilty, one to a felony and one to a misdemeanor, in…