The People, in the exercise of their broad prosecutorial discretion, have agreed that defendant's third-degree weapon possession conviction should be vacated under the particular circumstances of the case and in light of recent legislation amending Penal Law § 265.01 to effectively decriminalize the simple possession of gravity knives, notwithstanding that this law does not apply retroactively (see People v Caviness, 176 A.D.3d 522 [2019], lv denied 34...
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