Court Opinion

ID: 5848665
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 23:53:49.756761+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:44:00.924080
License: Public Domain

Lazer, J. P.,
concurs as to the denial of resentence, but otherwise dissents and votes to modify the resentence in issue by reducing it to a period of imprisonment of three years to life, with the following memorandum: This resentence of five years to life for $285 sale of cocaine to an undercover officer is excessive. The 46-year-old defendant, who held a single job for 11 years before discharge for poor attendance, is scarcely a hardened criminal. The resentence is neither consonant with others imposed on more serious drug offenders nor appropriate to the charge or the defendant’s circumstances. Therefore, I would reduce it to three years to life.