People v. Alvarez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard Fried, J., at suppression hearing; Laura Visitacion-Lewis, J., at plea and sentence), rendered November 17, 1999, convicting defendant of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of eight years to life, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of vacating the conviction and substituting a conviction of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, and otherwise affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression…