People v. Williams

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Belfi, J.), rendered May 23, 1989, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of five years to life imprisonment and $1,480 in restitution.

Ordered that the sentence is modified, on the law, by vacating the provision thereof which directed the defendant to make restitution in the sum of $1,480; as so modified, the sentence is affirmed.

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