DECISION AND ORDER Defendant Chastidy Abisdid moves for an order of the court invalidating the People’s Certificate of Compliance (“COC”) and dismissing this action as a result of the People’s failure to disclose certain discoverable materials within the applicable speedy trial time. This court finds that the COC is invalid, and thus, the People’s Statement of Readiness (“SOR”) is illusory. There are 137 days charged to the People. Accordingly, Defendant’s motion to dismiss the accusatory instrument is hereby GRANTED. Background On September 14, 2023, Defendant was arraigned on a misdemeanor complaint charging her with: Penal Law §240.30(1)(a) Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree (a class A misdemeanor); Penal Law §240.30(1)(b) Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree (a class A misdemeanor); Penal Law §240.30(2) Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree (a class A misdemeanor); and Penal Law §240.26 Harassment in the Second Degree (a violation). At Defendant’s arraignment, the matter was adjourned to November 2, 2023, for the parties to appear in Part AP2. On that date, the People announced not ready, and the matter was adjourned to December 15, 2023. The People filed and served their COC and SOR off-calendar on November 28, 2023. The People served supplemental COCs on December 27, 2023, December 28, 2023, and January 16, 2024 (“SCOC1,” “SCOC2,” and “SCOC3,” respectively). Defendant filed the instant motion challenging the COC on January 29, 2024. Discussion CPL 30.30(1)(b) provides that, when a defendant is charged with a misdemeanor punishable by a sentence of more than three months, and no felonies, the action must be dismissed if the prosecution is not ready for trial within ninety days of its commencement. To declare readiness for trial, the People must, among other things, file a valid COC (People v. Larkins, 76 Misc 3d 133[A], 2022 NY Slip Op 50922[U], *1 [App Term, 2d, 11th & 13th Jud Dists 2022]). Defendant’s motion seeks dismissal of the instant matter pursuant to CPL 30.30 on the grounds that the People failed to comply with their discovery obligations, rendering their COC improper and SOR illusory. CPL 245.20(1) provides that the People must disclose “all items and information that relate to the subject matter of the case and are in the possession, custody, or control of the prosecution or persons under the prosecution’s direction or control.” This subsection of the statute provides a non-exhaustive list of twenty-one categories that are included in the types of material required to be disclosed. “The People’s ‘possession’ includes discoverable material that is in the possession of the police” (People v. Cartagena, 76 Misc 3d 1214[A], 2022 NY Slip Op 50943[U], *2 [Crim Ct, Bronx County 2022], citing CPL 245.20[2]). CPL 245.50(1) also requires the People to file a COC that certifies, in good faith, that: (1) they have “made available all known material and information subject to discovery” (see also People ex rel. Ferro v. Brann, 197 AD3d 787, 787-88 [2d Dept 2021]); and (2) they have exercised “due diligence” and made “reasonable inquiries” to “ascertain the existence” of discoverable material (see also People v. Hooks, 78 Misc 3d 398, 400 [Crim Ct, Kings County 2023]). On a motion to declare a COC invalid, the defendant must first “identify a specific defect with the People’s [COC],” then the burden shifts to the People to “demonstrate the propriety of their certification” (People v. Brown, 74 Misc 3d 1227[A], 2022 NY Slip Op 50234[U], *2 [Albany City Ct 2022]). The People must explain, in detail, the reasonable inquiries they made to obtain the discoverable materials (People v. Winston, 78 Misc 3d 1201[A], 2023 NY Slip Op 50130[U], *7 [Crim Ct, Bronx County 2023]; Brown, 74 Misc 3d 1227[A] at *2). A. Timing of Defendant’s Motion The People ask this court to reject Defendant’s motion to invalidate the COC and dismiss the accusatory instrument as untimely. Defendant argues that she filed her motion on time. The People base their argument on CPL 255.20, and Defendant argues that CPL 170.30 applies instead. As explained below, neither of those CPL provisions apply. Rather, CPL 245.50 sets the filing deadline for a motion to invalidate a COC. When applied, CPL 245.50 renders Defendant’s motion timely. The People argue that Defendant filed her motion in violation of CPL 255.20, which requires pretrial motions to be “served or filed within forty-five days after arraignment and before commencement of trial, or within such additional time as the court may fix upon application of the defendant made prior to entry of judgment.” However, the People recognize that, in these circumstances, a pretrial motion to challenge a COC’s validity will not be filed until after the COC is filed. Despite statutory guidelines directing that a COC should be filed within 35 days of a defendant’s arraignment, in practice, it sometimes is not filed until more than 45 days have elapsed. In recognition that CPL 255.20 cannot be applied as written for COC challenges, certain courts have held that a defendant must file such a motion within 45 days of the filing of the COC (People v. Williams, 75 Misc 3d 1228[A], 2022 NY Slip Op 50681[U], *2 [Suffolk Dist Ct, 1st Dist 2022]; People v. Clanton, 75 Misc 3d 1206[A], 2022 NY Slip Op 50401[U], *5 [Suffolk Dist Ct 2022]). The People argue that this court should apply such a rule here. In this case, Defendant filed the instant motion on January 29, 2024, which is 62 days after the People filed their original COC. Therefore, the People argue that the court should deny the motion as untimely. In contrast, Defendant argues that this motion is brought pursuant to CPL 170.30(1)(e), and thus, the timing outlined in CPL 255.20 is not applicable. CPL 170.30(2) states that a motion to dismiss on speedy trial grounds brought pursuant to CPL 170.30(1)(e) “should be made prior to the commencement of trial or entry of a plea of guilty.” While Defendant ultimately seeks dismissal on speedy trial grounds, this requested relief is dependent upon the portion of Defendant’s motion that first seeks invalidation of the COC. Only if the COC is invalidated does the speedy trial clock continue to run, thereby creating the conditions for dismissal pursuant to CPL 30.30. Consequently, to the extent that CPL 255.20 applies, the timing of Defendant’s motion is first governed by CPL 255.20 and not CPL 170.30 (Williams, 75 Misc 3d 1228[A] at *2). Separately, CPL 245.50 provides several criteria for a COC and a supplemental COC. It states that “[c]hallenges related to the sufficiency of a certificate of compliance or supplemental certificates of compliance shall be addressed by motion as soon as practicable” (CPL 245.50[4][c] [emphasis added]). Unlike CPL 255.20, CPL 245.50 directly addresses the timing of filing a motion challenging the validity of a COC. However, the deadline it provides is subjective. To provide guidance for such an indefinite deadline, the court in People v. Lanfair (78 Misc 3d 371 [Cohoes City Ct 2023]1) suggests several factors, such as the length of the delay and the volume of discovery produced. Thus, CPL 255.20 and 245.50 provide conflicting deadlines for filing a motion to invalidate the COC. “In the case of a conflict between a general statute and a special statute governing the same subject matter, the general statute must yield” (People ex rel. McCurdy v. Warden, Westchester County Corr. Facility, 164 AD3d 692, 693-94 [2d Dept 2018], affd, 36 NY3d 251 [2020], quoting In re Enf’t of Tax Liens ex rel. County of Orange, 75 AD3d 224, 234 [2d Dept 2010]). Here, the general statute is CPL 255.20, which concerns pretrial motions by and large. The special statute is CPL 245.50 because it explicitly addresses the timing of a motion challenging a COC’s validity. Accordingly, CPL 245.50, not CPL 255.20, determines the filing for a motion challenging the validity of the COC.2 Moreover, the application of CPL 245.50 and its flexible deadline is consistent with the CPL’s overall discovery scheme. First, it fosters disclosure by allowing the parties time to obtain and provide discovery in accordance with CPL 245.20(7), which states that “[t]here shall be a presumption in favor of disclosure when interpreting sections 245.10 and 245.25, and subdivision one of section 245.20, of this article.” Second, it supports the parties’ efforts to resolve discovery disputes without resorting to motion practice in accordance with both CPL 245.35, which seeks to streamline discovery disputes, and 245.35(1), which authorizes a court to issue an order “[r]equiring that the prosecutor and counsel for the defendant diligently confer to attempt to reach an accommodation as to any dispute concerning discovery prior to seeking a ruling from the court.” Here, the People filed their COC on November 28, 2023 (Affirmation of Sophie Whitin ["Whitin Aff."] at 5). The parties subsequently conferred about discovery (id. at
