People v. Marchese

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Fisch, J.), rendered December 10, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 61/2 to 13 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 5 to 10 years, and otherwise affirmed.

*342In this "buy and bust” case, there was extensive cross-examination of the police concerning their failure to use various additional investigative techniques.…