Under the circumstances presented here, the fact that defendant received a sentence on his drug case that had become unlawful between his plea and sentencing entitles him to be resentenced, but not to vacatur of the plea. When defendant pleaded guilty in 2002, he was promised a sentence of two to four years, which was a lawful sentence at that time. Defendant absconded, and during the 15 years in which he was at large, the Drug Law Reform Act of 2009 (L 2009, ch 56, §...
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