People v. Marcia

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered May 23, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as second felony offender, to a term of 10 to 20 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 6 to 12 years, and otherwise affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. Contrary to defendant’s argument, we find the evidence of defendant’s identity to be overwhelming.…