The defendant was charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree arising out of two sales of cocaine to an undercover police officer. He was permitted by the narcotics prosecutor to plead guilty to the criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree on the understanding that he would receive a sentence of four years to life. That sentence was in fact thereafter imposed. Special circumstances disclosed by the record persuade us, as they...
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