PEOPLE v. RIVERA


181 A.D.2d 925 (1992)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Richard Rivera, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

March 30, 1992


Ordered that the judgment is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the defendant's conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree to criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and vacating the sentence imposed; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for resentencing.

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