Legal Opinion
People v. Vega
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 22, 2007PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Eng, J.), dated January 18, 2006, which, after a hearing, denied his motion to be resentenced pursuant to section 23 of Chapter 738 of the Laws of 2004.
Ordered that the order is affirmed.
The Drug Law Reform Act (L 2004, ch 738 [hereinafter the DLRA]) established a new sentencing structure for laws which had been enacted in 1973 and were commonly referred to as the Rockefeller Drug Laws (L 1973, ch 276, § 19). DLRA § 23 provides that “any person” in the custody of the Department of Correctional Services convicted of a…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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