Legal Opinion
People v. Mills
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 17, 2008PublishedCited by 32 opinions
POINTS OF COUNSEL
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Read, J.
These appeals call upon us to interpret the Drug Law Reform Act of 2005 (see L 2005, ch 643 [the 2005 DLRA]), which allows certain nonviolent A-II felons sentenced to indeterminate terms under the old Rockefeller Drug Laws to seek resentencing to determinate terms under the provisions of the Rockefeller Drug Law Reform Act of 2004 (see L 2004, ch 738). For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the 2005 DLRA does not apply to defendants Donald Mills and Jose Then. We therefore affirm the orders of the Appellate Division in both cases.
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A. Mills
On April 20, 1995,…
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