People v. Yepes

Judgement, of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Bertram Katz, J.), rendered on October 3, 1988, convicting defendant, after trial by jury, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, and sentencing him to two concurrent terms of 25 years to life, is unanimously modified, upon the law and facts and as a matter of discretion, to reduce the sentences to 20 years to life, and otherwise affirmed.

Defendant was arrested during a buy-and-bust operation in which a codefendant arranged for the sale of 750 grams of…