Assembly Bill A3971

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for mandatory imprisonment and plea restrictions for offenses victimizing the elderly and physically disabled

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  • Introduced
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    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A3971 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4773
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §10.00, add Art 280 §§280.00 - 280.10, amd §60.05, add §70.09, Pen L; amd §§180.75, 220.10, 220.30 & 720.10, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A4071, S4398
2013-2014: A4671
2015-2016: A4480
2017-2018: A3546
2019-2020: A5217
2021-2022: A6719
2023-2024: A4190

2009-A3971 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Defines the felonies of victimizing the elderly or physically disabled in the 3rd degree, 2nd degree and 1st degree and provides that a sentence of imprisonment must be imposed upon conviction of certain offenses against the elderly or physically disabled; provides that a juvenile offender shall include a person 14 or 15 years old who is criminally responsible for victimizing the elderly or physically disabled; includes within the category, "eligible youth" for youthful offender treatment, one who has been convicted of victimizing the elderly or the physically disabled in the 1st degree; provides certain plea restrictions and sentencing structure for persons convicted of such crimes.

2009-A3971 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3971

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. RAIA, HAWLEY, KOLB, SEMINERIO, TOWNSEND, WALKER
  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  ALFANO,  BURLING,  CONTE,  CROUCH,
  ERRIGO, FITZPATRICK, JEFFRIES, McKEVITT, MOLINARO, OAKS, SPANO, THIELE
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law  and  the criminal procedure law, in
  relation to mandatory imprisonment and plea restrictions for  offenses
  victimizing the elderly and physically disabled

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. It is hereby found and declared that elderly and physically
disabled people continue to be singled out as victims of  crime.  It  is
also  found  that  the  physical  harm  and emotional trauma suffered by
elderly and physically disabled crime victims has a  devastating  effect
on the lives of those victims.
  The  elderly  or  physically  disabled victim has a decreased physical
capability to resist an attacker and thus becomes an inviting target  of
crime.  Moreover, the aftereffects of crime on the elderly and the phys-
ically handicapped affect them more deeply  than  any  statistics  would
indicate.  The  emotional  trauma  and  possible serious physical damage
resulting from a face to face crime may cause a permanent downgrading in
the elderly or physically  disabled  victim's  lifestyle.  Such  victims
often  impose  "house-arrest"  on  themselves,  afraid to shop, to visit
friends, to go to the doctor, to live, unless behind locked doors.  Even
those elderly or physically disabled who are not direct victims of crime
suffer  indirectly, because they, having learned of the terrible tragedy
suffered by other elderly and physically disabled and fearful for  their
own  individual  safety,  barricade  themselves  within their homes. The
older or physically disabled crime victim is thus  twice  victimized--by
the crime and by its aftermath.
  Criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, and the police all recog-
nize  and  acknowledge  these  facts, but the law does not.  It has been

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06586-01-9
              

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