People v. Hamilton

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Diaz, J.) rendered February 15, 1991, by which defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentenced as a second felony offender to a term of 10 to 20 years in prison, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent that defendant’s sentence is reduced to 5 to 10 years in prison, and otherwise affirmed.

Defendant was arrested and convicted for selling twenty dollars worth of cocaine to an undercover police officer. Upon our examination of…