Court Opinion

ID: 5900725
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 03:20:08.229129+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:45:39.733923
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— Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his brief, from a sentence of the County Court, Nassau County (Belfi, J.), imposed January 9, 1986, upon his conviction of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, the sentence being an indeterminate term of three years to life imprisonment and $1,000 in restitution.
Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.
The statutory scheme establishing an indeterminate term of three years to life imprisonment for criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree is not an unconstitutional limitation on judicial discretion, cruel and unusual punishment or grossly disproportionate to the offense (see, People v Broadie, 37 NY2d 100, cert denied 423 US 950). Thompson, J. P., Niehoff, Eiber, Sullivan and Harwood, JJ., concur.