People v. Bruce L.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Holdman, J.), rendered September 18, 2006, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon his plea of guilty, and sentencing him to a determinate term of six years’ imprisonment, followed by three years of post-release supervision.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, the conviction is deemed vacated and replaced with a finding that the defendant is a youthful offender (see CPL 720.20 [3]), the sentence is reduced to a determinate term…