Opinion
No. 2679.
February 5, 2008.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd G. Goodman, J., at plea; Daniel P. FitzGerald, J., at sentence), rendered February 23, 2006, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 6½ years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to reduce the sentence to a term of 5½ years, and otherwise affirmed.
Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Chase Stuart of counsel), for appellant.
Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York (Britta Gilmore of counsel), for respondent.
Before: Tom, J.P., Saxe, Gonzalez, Buckley and Catterson, JJ.
We find the sentence excessive to the extent indicated.