Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Rafael Rodriguez, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1997-02-04
Citations: 236 A.D.2d 201
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Rafael Rodriguez, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 236
Pages: 201–201

Head Matter:
First Department,
February, 1997
(February 4, 1997)
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Rafael Rodriguez, Appellant.
[653 NYS2d 849]

Opinion:
—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.