People v. Pantoja

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered December 8, 1989, 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 imprisonment of 8 to 16 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.

Contrary to defendant’s contention, the People established beyond a reasonable doubt that when defendant sold narcotics to an undercover officer…