Opinion
No. 4122.
January 27, 2011.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.), rendered August 19, 2009, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 15 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the prison term to 10 years, and otherwise affirmed.
Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Robert S. Dean of counsel), for appellant.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Allen J. Vickey of counsel), for respondent.
Before: Gonzalez, P.J., Sweeny, Acosta, Freedman and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.
We find the sentence excessive to the extent indicated.