People v. Coleman

OPINION OF THE COURT

Peters, PJ.

Following a jury trial held in 2001, defendant was convicted of two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentenced as a persistent felony offender to an aggregate prison term of 15 years to life (4 AD3d 677, 678 [2004], lvs denied 2 NY3d 797 [2004], 3 NY3d 672 [2004]).1 After County Court initially denied defendant’s motion for resentencing seeking a reduced determinate sentence under the Drug Law Reform Act of 2009 (see L 2009, ch 56, § 1, part AAA, § 9, as codified, in relevant part, in CPL 440.46), this Court remitted the…