On defendant's appeal from so much of the order of the Appellate Division as affirmed Supreme Court's order denying defendant's motion for resentencing, the appeal should be dismissed; and the order otherwise appealed from should be affirmed.
On May 29, 2003, defendant Cleveland Lovett was convicted of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first and third degrees (Penal Law §§ 220.21, 220.16) and first-degree reckless endangerment (Penal Law § 120.25) in connection with a high-speed car chase on the West Side Highway in
Defendant appealed both the judgment of conviction and sentence and the orders denying his two postjudgment motions. The Appellate Division, with two Justices dissenting, modified the judgment in one respect, not relevant to this appeal, and otherwise affirmed the judgment and the two orders (116 A.D.3d 428 [1st Dept 2014]). A dissenting Justice granted defendant permission to appeal to us (2014 NY Slip Op 75464[U] [1st Dept 2014]).
Defendant again argues that he should have been resentenced pursuant to the 2004 DLRA. "It is well established that [n]o appeal lies from a determination made in a criminal proceeding unless specifically provided for by statute," and courts "may not resort to interpretative contrivances to broaden the scope and application of statutes" governing the availability of an appeal (People v Pagan, 19 N.Y.3d 368, 370 [2012] [internal quotation marks omitted]). In People v Bautista (7 N.Y.3d 838 [2006]), we held that no statutory provision authorizes a defendant to appeal from an Appellate Division order affirming the denial of the defendant's resentencing application pursuant to the 2005 Drug Law Reform Act (id. at 838-839). The 2004 DLRA includes similar language relating to appeals; accordingly, no appeal lies from an order of the Appellate Division affirming the denial of a resentencing application under the 2004 DLRA (see People v Sevencan, 12 N.Y.3d 388, 389 [2009] [dismissal of criminal leave application authorized for publication by the Court]). Faced with this barrier to our review, defendant contends that the Appellate Division's consolidation of the order denying resentencing with other, appealable orders, transformed the nonappealable order into one that we may consider. We disagree. The Appellate Division's authority to consolidate appeals stems from its inherent authority to administer and manage its proceedings. The Appellate Division's use of this inherent authority does not expand or modify the scope of our jurisdiction, which is established by statute.