People v. Baraka

OPINION OF THE COURT

Bernard J. Fried, J.

Defendant Imamu Amiri Baraka moves this court for an order vacating, reducing or modifying the 90-day sentence of imprisonment previously imposed by the Honorable Stephen Zarkin, then Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, following a jury trial before Judge Zarkin, which ended on November 16, 1979, at which defendant was convicted on a one-count information charging resisting arrest (Penal Law, § 205.30). Sentence was imposed by Judge Zarkin on December 28, 1979, and defendant was remanded to the custody of the Department of Correction of…