People v Cobb
2011 NY Slip Op 09145 [90 AD3d 779]
December 13, 2011
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, February 1, 2012


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

[*1]Robert C. Mitchell, Riverhead, N.Y. (Alfred J. Cicale of counsel), for appellant.

Thomas J. Spota, District Attorney, Riverhead, N.Y. (Edward A. Bannan of counsel), forrespondent.

Appeal by the defendant from an order of the County Court, Suffolk County (Braslow, J.),dated July 27, 2010, which denied his motion to be resentenced pursuant to CPL 440.46 on hisconvictions of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possessionof a controlled substance in the third degree, which sentences were originally imposed, upon hisplea of guilty, on January 12, 2004.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, and the matter is remitted to the County Court,Suffolk County, for further proceedings pursuant to CPL 440.46.

The defendant contends, and the People correctly concede, that contrary to the determinationof the County Court, his status as a reincarcerated parole violator did not render him ineligible toapply for resentencing pursuant to the Drug Law Reform Act of 2009, codified in CPL 440.46(see People v Paulin, 17 NY3d238, 241-242 [2011]; People vVidal, 87 AD3d 1085 [2011]; People v Santiago, 87 AD3d 1077 [2011]; People v Howard, 85 AD3d 1202,1202-1203 [2011]). Accordingly, the order appealed from must be reversed, and the matterremitted to the County Court, Suffolk County, for further proceedings pursuant to CPL 440.46.Dillon, J.P., Dickerson, Leventhal, Austin and Miller, JJ., concur.


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