Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Thomas M. Nosewicz of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Jared Wolkowitz of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Eduardo Padro, J.), rendered February 27, 2013, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender previously convicted of a violent felony, to a term of eight years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the prison term to six years, and otherwise affirmed.

We find the sentence excessive to the extent indicated. Concur—Friedman, J.P., Acosta, Renwick and Richter, JJ.