People v. Nieves

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J.), rendered January 11, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in third and seventh degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 9 to 18 years, 9 to 18 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to concurrent terms of 6 to 12 years, 6 to 12 years and 1 year, and otherwise…