People v. Punter

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John N. Byrne, J., at plea; John E Collins, J., at sentence), rendered January 26, 2006, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a *321controlled substance in or near school grounds, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 472 to 9 years, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of vacating the DNA databank fee, and otherwise affirmed.

We perceive no basis upon which to reduce defendant’s conviction to a lesser offense, since “we do not consider it appropriate to do so for the purpose of granting dispensations from mandatory…