Opinion
March 13, 2001.
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Perone, J. at plea, Michael Grossman, J. at sentence), rendered June 4, 1998, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to 4½ to 9 years, and otherwise affirmed.
Zaharah R. Markoe, for respondent.
Laura Boyd, for defendant-appellant.
Before: Nardelli, J.P., Ellerin, Wallach, Buckley, Friedman, JJ.
We find the sentence excessive to the extent indicated.