Ordered that the resentence is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the determinate term of imprisonment from 22 years to 17 years; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's contention that he was penalized for exercising his right to trial is without merit (see People v Melendez,
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