People v. Erazo

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.), rendered December 2, 1991, convicting him of attempted criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the term of imprisonment from 15 years to life imprisonment to 7 Vz to 15 years imprisonment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The grounds set forth by the defendant in support of his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel,…