OPINION OF THE COURT
MEMORANDUM.
The appeal should be dismissed, by the Court sua sponte, upon the ground that the modification by the Appellate Division was not "on the law alone or upon the law and such facts which, but for the determination of law, would not have led to... modification" (CPL 450.90[2][a]).
"[A]n Appellate Division reversal [or modification] based on an unpreserved error is considered an exercise of the Appellate Division's interest...
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