Opinion
1836
October 14, 2003.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dora Irizarry, J.), rendered May 13, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 7 to 14 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 5 to 10 years, and otherwise affirmed.
Gary T. Fishman, for respondent.
Robert S. Dean, for defendant-appellant.
Before: Nardelli, J.P., Mazzarelli, Andrias, Marlow, Gonzalez, JJ.
The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. Issues of credibility, including the weight to be given to inconsistencies in testimony, were properly considered by the jury and there is no basis for disturbing its determinations (see People v. Gaimari, 176 N.Y. 84, 94). We do not find the police account of the transaction to be implausible.
We find the sentence excessive to the extent indicated.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.