Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Robert S. Dean of counsel), for appellant.

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

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Mark R. Dwyer, J.), rendered January 17, 2020, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth and seventh degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender previously convicted of a violent felony, to an aggregate term of 4 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the prison component of the sentence to 31/2 years, and otherwise affirmed.

We find that defendant's request for self-representation was not unequivocal, as required (see People v Silburn, 31 NY3d 144, 150 [2018]). We find the sentence excessive to the extent indicated. Concur—Renwick, J.P., Kapnick, Scarpulla, Rodriguez, Higgitt, JJ.