People v. Vega

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Wetzel, J.), rendered June 17, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and fourth degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 10 to 20 years, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of reducing the sentence on the fourth-degree possession conviction to a term of 71/2 to 15 years, and otherwise affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in imposing reasonable limits on defendant’s cross-examination of the People’s…