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First Department,
    February, 1997
    (February 4, 1997)
    The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Rafael Rodriguez, Appellant.
    [653 NYS2d 849]
   —Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Mazur, J.), rendered July 26, 1994, convicting defendant, after a plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 7 to 14 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of. discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 5 to 10 years and otherwise affirmed.

We find the sentence excessive to the extent indicated. Concur—Murphy, P. J., Wallach, Nardelli and Williams, JJ.