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People v. Ramirez

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
May 8, 1978
63 A.D.2d 687 (N.Y. App. Div. 1978)

Opinion

May 8, 1978


Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered April 22, 1976, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing an indeterminate sentence with a minimum of one and one-half years and a maximum of life imprisonment on the criminal sale count, and a conditional discharge on the criminal possession count. Judgment affirmed. Once again we are confronted with a situation where the statutorily mandated sentence far exceeds the punishment which is appropriate for the acts performed (see People v Castillo, 61 A.D.2d 1034). The defendant, a 46-year-old man with no prior criminal record, faces the possibility of lifetime parole as the result of his sale of $20 worth of cocaine to an undercover police officer. Hopkins, J.P., Martuscello, Shapiro and O'Connor, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Ramirez

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
May 8, 1978
63 A.D.2d 687 (N.Y. App. Div. 1978)
Case details for

People v. Ramirez

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. PEDRO RAMIREZ…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: May 8, 1978

Citations

63 A.D.2d 687 (N.Y. App. Div. 1978)

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