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People v. Delatorre

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Feb 5, 2008
48 A.D.3d 475 (N.Y. App. Div. 2008)

Opinion

No. 2006-06922.

February 5, 2008.

Appeal by the defendant from an order of the County Court, Westchester County (Zambelli, J.), entered June 22, 2006, which denied his motion for resentencing pursuant to the Drug Law Reform Act of 2005 (L 2005, ch 643) on his conviction of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, which sentence was originally imposed, upon his plea of guilty, on July 29, 1997.

Briccetti, Calhoun Lawrence, LLP, White Plains, N.Y. (Clinton W. Calhoun III of counsel), for appellant.

Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Roseann B. MacKechnie and Malancha Chanda of counsel), for respondent.

Before: Santucci, J.P., Lifson, Covello and Angiolillo, JJ.


Ordered that order is affirmed.

Chapter 643 (§ 1) of the Laws of 2005, known as the Drug Law Reform Act of 2005, sets forth a number of conditions an inmate must satisfy in order to "apply to be resentenced in accordance with [Penal Law § 70.71]." One such condition is that an inmate must be more than three years away from being eligible for release on parole ( see People v Nolasco, 37 AD3d 622, 623; People v Parris, 35 AD3d 891, 892; People v Bautista, 26 AD3d 230). Here, the defendant has been eligible for parole since 2001, and will come before the Parole Board every two years. Under these facts, the County Court properly denied the defendant's motion for resentencing ( see People v Nolasco, 37 AD3d 622; People v Parris, 35 AD3d 891; People v Bautista, 26 AD3d 230).


Summaries of

People v. Delatorre

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Feb 5, 2008
48 A.D.3d 475 (N.Y. App. Div. 2008)
Case details for

People v. Delatorre

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. LIBERDO DELATORRE…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Feb 5, 2008

Citations

48 A.D.3d 475 (N.Y. App. Div. 2008)
2008 N.Y. Slip Op. 1160
852 N.Y.S.2d 189