People v. Donovan

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Santagata, J.), rendered December 12,1980, convicting her of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. Although we are sympathetic to defendant’s argument that the sentences imposed herein of concurrent terms of 15 years’ to life imprisonment (Penal Law, §§ 220.21; 220.43) are particularly severe and harsh under the circumstances of this case, we are constrained by People…