People v Watson
2011 NY Slip Op 07362 [88 AD3d 557]
October 20, 2011
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 7, 2011


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

—[*1] Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York (David Crow of counsel), and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP, New York (Joshua A. Kobrin of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Alan Gadlin of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles H. Solomon, J.), entered July 6, 2010, which denied defendant's CPL 440.46 motion for resentencing, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded to Supreme Court for further proceedings on the motion.

Defendant is eligible for consideration for resentencing even though he had been released from custody on his drug conviction but reincarcerated for a parole violation (see People v Paulin, 17 NY3d 238 [2011]). Concur—Gonzalez, P.J., Mazzarelli, Sweeny, Abdus-Salaam and RomÁn, JJ.