People v. Liddell

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Vaughn, J.), rendered April 5, 1990, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the concurrent terms of imprisonment from 12Vz to 25 years to IVz to 15 years; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

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