ALBANY – In rejecting the resentencing request of a man who said he earned considerable sums from selling drugs, a Bronx judge has underlined the considerable discretion given judges reviewing such applications under 2009 reforms to the Rockefeller Drug Laws.
Bronx Supreme Court Justice Robert G. Seewald (See Profile) determined that defendant Joel Stella failed to meet the profile of an addict or an addicted low-level drug seller, the types of offenders for whom the authors of last year’s drug law reforms sought to make eligible for shorter sentences.
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