People v. Velasquez

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Linakis, J.), rendered January 26, 1989, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of 8V3 years to life imprisonment.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the sentence to an indeterminate term of 5 years to life imprisonment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The record of the plea allocution, including direct colloquy with the…