People v. Carter

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Corriero, J.), rendered December 20, 1990, convicting him of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of three years to life imprisonment.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the defendant’s conviction to attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The sentence imposed by…