People v. Hiemel

Appeal by defendant, as limited by his brief, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County, imposed upon resentence on January 22, 1975, upon his conviction of murder in the second degree, on his plea of *770guilty, the sentence being a prison term of 30 years to life. Sentence modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing it to a prison term of 20 years to life. As so modified, sentence affirmed. In 1962, defendant, then 16 years of age, was indicted for murder in the first degree but was permitted to plead guilty to murder in the second degree and was…