People v Antonetty

People v Antonetty 2007 NY Slip Op 08870 [45 AD3d 397] November 15, 2007 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, January 16, 2008

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
George Antonetty, Appellant.

—[*1] Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York City (Robert Newman of counsel), and Proskauer Rose, LLP, Newark, New Jersey (Jason Schatz of counsel), for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York (Jessica Slutsky of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Bart Stone, J.), entered on or about January 5, 2007, which denied defendant's motion to be resentenced under the Drug Law Reform Act of 2004, unanimously affirmed.

Section 23 of the Drug Law Reform Act (L 2004, ch 738) provides, in pertinent part, that the court should grant a resentencing application "unless substantial justice dictates that the application should be denied." The court properly recognized the degree of discretion it possessed (compare People v Arana, 32 AD3d 305 [2006]) and providently exercised that discretion in denying resentencing based on the serious nature of defendant's subject crime, past crimes and misconduct while incarcerated (see People v Vasquez, 41 AD3d 111 [2007], lv dismissed 9 NY3d 870 [2007]). The court based its determination on reliable information concerning defendant's background. We have considered and rejected defendant's remaining claims. Concur—Andrias, J.P., Marlow, Williams, Buckley and Malone, JJ.