People v. Denton

Appeal by the People, as limited by their brief, from so much of a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gerges, J.), imposed January 27, 2005, as was imposed upon the defendant’s conviction of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, that sentence being a determinate term of eight years’ imprisonment, to be followed by a five-year period of postrelease supervision.

Ordered that the sentence is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gerges, J.), for resentencing on the…