| People v Harris |
| 2017 NY Slip Op 06219 [153 AD3d 1092] |
| August 17, 2017 |
| Appellate Division, Third Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Taiwan Harris, Appellant. |
Eric K. Schillinger, East Greenbush, for appellant.
Robert M. Carney, District Attorney, Schenectady (Chandler Delameter of counsel), for respondent.
Egan Jr., J. Appeal from an order of the County Court of Schenectady County (Tomlinson, J.), entered August 15, 2014, which denied defendant's motion for resentencing pursuant to the Drug Law Reform Act of 2005.
In 1996, defendant was convicted of, among other things, criminal possession of a controlled
substance in the second degree, a class A-II felony, and he was sentenced to 3
We affirm. In People v Mills (11 NY3d 527 [2008]), the Court of Appeals made it clear that "in order to qualify for resentencing under the 2005 DLRA, class A-II felony drug offenders must not be eligible for parole within three years of their resentencing applications" (id. at 534; see People v Salvatierra, 51 AD3d 1218, 1219 [2008], lv dismissed 10 NY3d 964 [2008]). The Court further held that "once a defendant has been released to parole supervision for a class A-II drug felony conviction, he or she no longer qualifies for 2005 DLRA relief for that particular conviction" (People v Mills, 11 NY3d at 537; see People v Cavallaro, 46 AD3d 1024, 1024 [2007], lv dismissed 10 NY3d 762 [2008]). Here, defendant was released to parole following his A-II felony conviction and was reincarcerated after he committed another crime while on parole. In addition, the record discloses that defendant's eligibility for parole release was to be [*2]considered again within three years of his motion for resentencing. Both defendant's prior parole release and upcoming parole reappearance rendered him ineligible for resentencing. Therefore, County Court properly denied his motion.
Garry, J.P., Lynch, Mulvey and Aarons, JJ., concur. Ordered that the order is affirmed.