People v. Skeffery

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.), rendered November 21, 1990, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree and bail jumping in the first degree, and sentencing her to concurrent prison terms of 15 years to life and 1 year, respectively, unanimously modified, on the law, the facts and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence on the possession count to 5 years to life, and otherwise affirmed.

*439While a sentence within the statutory limits ordinarily is…