People v. Slater

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his brief, from a sentence of the County Court, Dutchess County (Greller, J.), imposed September 17, 2014, consisting of a determinate term of imprisonment of 8V2 years plus a period of two years of postrelease supervision, upon his conviction of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon his plea of guilty, on the ground that the sentence was illegal or, in the alternative, excessive.

Ordered that the sentence is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the sentence from a determinate term…