People v. Feliciano

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered March 25, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously modified as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice to reduce the sentence to 4 Vi to 9 years, and otherwise affirmed.

This conviction arises out of a "buy-and-bust” operation, in which the defendant sold a vial of cocaine to an undercover police officer in exchange for a 10 dollar bill in prerecorded "buy…