People v. Crespo

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Richard Price, J.), rendered December 16, 1996, 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 a term of 10 to 20 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 6 to 12 years, and otherwise affirmed.

During trial, the court excused the jury for 30 minutes, after admonishing the jurors…