People v. Henao
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant, as limited by her brief, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Mclnerney, J.), imposed November 13, 1986, upon her conviction of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon her plea of guilty, the sentence being an indeterminate term of 3½ years’ to life imprisonment.
Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.
Upon our review of the record, we conclude that the sentence imposed did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of constitutional proscriptions (NY Const, art I, § 5; US Const 8th Amend). Absent exceptional…
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