People v. Morales

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Peter Benitez, J.), rendered May 24, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 7Vs to 15 years and 4Vs to 9 years, respectively, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence on the third degree sale conviction to a term of 6 to 12 years, and otherwise affirmed.

Defendant’s…