People v. Ocasio

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (A. Kirke Bartley, Jr., J.), rendered September 5, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree and criminal impersonation in the second degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of one to three years, unanimously modified, in the interest of justice, to reduce the sentence to five years probation, and otherwise affirmed. The matter is remitted to Supreme Court for further proceedings pursuant to CPL 460.50 (5).

The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting evidence…