People v. Diaz

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alfred Donati, J.), rendered September 23, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 7V2 to 15 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to concurrent terms of 5V2 to 11 years, and otherwise affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling was an appropriate exercise of…