People v. Staley

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dufficy, J.), rendered October 2, 1984, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of 20 years to life imprisonment, and a $75 surcharge.

Judgment modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the minimum term of imprisonment from 20 years to 15 years. As so modified, judgment affirmed.

During the course of a police raid on the first floor apart*408ment of a building suspected of being a…