People v. Byrd

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alfred Donati, J.), rendered January 24, 1994, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing her, as a second felony offender, to a term of 71/2 to 15 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to reduce the sentence to a term of 5 to 10 years, and otherwise affirmed.

Defendant’s current claim of error in connection with the procedure utilized for the exercise of peremptory challenges is unpreserved (People v Mancuso, 22 NY2d 679, cert…