Judgment modified, on the law, by vacating the sentence imposed on the defendant's conviction of murder in the second degree of 7½ years to life imprisonment. As so modified, judgment affirmed, and matter remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for resentence in conformance with Penal Law § 70.00.
Late in the evening of January 29, 1981, the defendant killed his sister by striking her about the head repeatedly with a hammer and then slitting her throat...
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