People v. Vasquez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berk-man, J., at suppression hearing; Edward J. McLaughlin, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered December 13, 2006, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 10 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of eight years, and otherwise affirmed.

The court properly declined to deliver a circumstantial evidence charge since the case against defendant did not rest exclusively on…