§ 60.08 Authorized dispositions; resentencing of certain
controlled substance offenders.
Any person convicted of an offense and sentenced to prison
for an indeterminate sentence, the minimum of which was at least
one year and the maximum of which was life imprisonment, which
sentence was imposed pursuant to chapter two hundred seventy-six,
two hundred seventy-seven, two hundred seventy-eight, or ten
hundred fifty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-three,
and for which such sentence was imposed upon conviction of the
crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the
first degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in
the second degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance
in the third degree, criminal sale of a controlled substance in
the first degree, criminal sale of a controlled substance in the
second degree, or criminal sale of a controlled substance in the
third degree, and the sole controlled substance involved was
methadone, may apply, upon notice to the appropriate district
attorney, for resentencing in the court which originally imposed
sentence.
Such resentencing shall, unless substantial justice dictates
otherwise, be pursuant to the current provisions of the penal
law, and shall include credit for any jail time incurred upon the
subject conviction as well as credit for any period of
incarceration incurred pursuant to the sentence originally
imposed.
In cases where the proof before the court is not available or
is not sufficiently reliable to determine the amount of methadone
present in any preparation, compound, mixture or substance
containing methadone, there shall exist a rebuttable presumption
that each ounce of the preparation, compound, mixture or
substance contained sixty milligrams of methadone.