People v. Figueroa

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.), imposed in absentia on November 2, 1989, upon the defendant’s conviction of burglary in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, the sentence being 12 Vi to 25 years imprisonment.

Ordered that the sentence is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the term of imprisonment from 12 Vi to 25 years to 6 to 12 years; as so modified, the sentence is affirmed.

The defendant, following his plea of guilty to burglary in the first degree, a Class B…