The 2009 Drug Law Reform Act (L 2009, ch 56), like its predecessors, provides that an eligible inmate's application for resentencing "shall" be granted, unless "substantial justice" dictates that it be denied (CPL 440.46 [3] [incorporating by reference provisions of the 2004 Drug Law Reform Act (L 2004, ch 738, § 23)]). The determination is discretionary (see People v Gonzalez,
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