People v Avraham
2021 NY Slip Op 03388 [194 AD3d 657]
May 27, 2021
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 30, 2021


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Shlomo Avraham, Appellant.

Janet E. Sabel, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Ronald Zapata of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Stephen J. Kress of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ellen N. Biben, J.), rendered October 24, 2017, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him to a term of 21/2 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the postrelease supervision component of the sentence to a period of one year, and otherwise affirmed. We find the sentence excessive to the extent indicated. Concur—Kapnick, J.P., Mazzarelli, Moulton, Mendez, JJ.