Case ID: ad2d_78/html/0537-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Malcolm Martin, Also Known as Malcolm Berkowitz, Appellant.
   Appeal by defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County, imposed October 31, 1979, upon his conviction of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a plea of guilty, the sentence being an .indeterminate term of imprisonment of 8 Vis to 25 years. Sentence modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing it to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of 5 to 15 years. As so modified, sentence affirmed. The sentence was excessive to the extent indicated. Gulotta, J. P., Cohalan, Margett and Martuscello, JJ., concur.