People v. Alvarez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Antonio I. Brandveen, J.), rendered May 30, 1991, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (four counts), and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 9 to 18 years on each count, unanimously modified to reduce the terms to 5 to 10 years and otherwise affirmed.

As defendant acquiesced to the trial court’s decision to give an adverse inference charge, one of two sanctions proposed by defendant,…