People v. Rodriguez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Beeler, J.), rendered January 20, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as second felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 5 to 10 years, and otherwise affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict based on juror misconduct. There is no basis upon which to disturb the court’s…