People v. Lopez

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his brief, from a sentence of the County Court, Nassau County (Thorp, J.), imposed April 26, 1989, upon his conviction of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, the sentence being an indeterminate term of five years to life imprisonment and $2,000 in restitution.

Ordered that the sentence is modified, on the law, by vacating the restitution provision; as so modified, the sentence is affirmed.

*695The Court of Appeals has held that law enforcement officials are not entitled to restitution of "buy money” (see,…