People v. Breland

— Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Owens, J.), rendered May 21, 1982, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence of a term of imprisonment of 25 years to life.

Judgment modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the sentence to 20 years to life. As so modified, judgment affirmed.

Defendant voluntarily surrendered himself on November 30, 1981 for the homicide of one Michael Williams. At his trial, he testified that in the early morning of November 29, 1981, upon returning to…