People v. Chambers

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Vincent A. Vitale, J.), rendered July 1, 1985, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 5 to 15 years, is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to an indeterminate term of from 4 to 12 years, and, as so modified, affirmed.

On March 22, 1984, defendant was indicted for the crime of murder in the second degree arising from his killing of Omar Madden, his common-law brother-in-law, on March 7, 1984, after a…