People v. Matias

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey Atlas, J.), rendered on or about February 28, 1989, which convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced him to a prison term of 8 Vs to 25 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to reduce the sentence to 5 to 15 years, and otherwise affirmed.

The defendant, who was 41 years old at the time of this incident, had no prior arrest record and since 1982 had been steadily employed as a superintendent of an apartment building. The record discloses that…