Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1979

People v. Cosmo

People v. Cosmo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided January 29, 1979 · Rabin
67 A.D.2d 734; 412 N.Y.S.2d 588; 1979 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10366
People v. Cosmo

Dissenting Opinion

Rabin, J.,

dissents and votes to affirm the sentence.

Opinion of the Court

— Appeal by defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, imposed May 29, 1978, upon his conviction of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, on his plea of guilty, the sentence being an indeterminate prison term of from two years to life. Sentence modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing it to a prison term of one year to life. As so *735modified, sentence affirmed. The sentence was excessive to the extent indicated herein. Suozzi, J. P., Gulotta and Shapiro, JJ., concur.

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