People v. Elfe

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ronald Zweibel, J.), rendered July 27, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 10 to 20 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 7 to 14 years, and otherwise affirmed.

Under the particular circumstances of this case, the court properly exercised its discretion in denying defense counsel’s request that the People disclose the…