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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Allen Burnett, Appellant.
    [932 NYS2d 705]
   Even if the defendant were eligible for resentencing pursuant to the Drug Law Reform Act of 2009, codified in CPL 440.46, substantial justice dictated the denial of his motion to be resentenced. After the defendant pleaded guilty in 1997 to criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, he failed to return for sentencing. The defendant only returned to court, involuntarily, after 11 years upon being arrested for burglary, and was convicted in late 2009 of burglary in the second degree, a violent felony (see Penal Law § 70.02 [1] [b]; § 140.25). Accordingly, under these circumstances, even though the defendant’s conduct while incarcerated has been relatively positive, the Supreme Court properly denied the defendant’s motion to be resentenced pursuant to CPL 440.46 (see People v Hickman, 85 AD3d 1057 [2011]; People v Rodriguez, 83 AD3d 419 [2011]; People v Ciriaco, 46 AD3d 374 [2007]; People v Marte, 44 AD3d 442 [2007]). Rivera, J.P, Angiolillo, Belen and Roman, JJ., concur. [Prior Case History: 28 Misc 3d 928.]