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Assembly Bill A6909

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Increases minimum sentence for a class A-I felony

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2009-A6909 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง70.00, Pen L

2009-A6909 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Raises the minimum period of imprisonment for a class A-I felony from not less than 15 years nor more than 25 years to not less than 20 years nor more than 30 years.

2009-A6909 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6909

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 13, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SCOZZAFAVA  -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal  law,  in  relation  to  raising  the  minimum
  sentence for a class A-I felony

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

  Section 1.   Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a)  of  subdivision  3  of
section 70.00 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 107 of the laws of
2006, is amended to read as follows:
  (i) For a class A-I felony, such minimum period shall not be less than
[fifteen]  TWENTY  years  nor  more  than  [twenty-five]  THIRTY  years;
provided, however, that (A) where a sentence, other than a  sentence  of
death  or  life imprisonment without parole, is imposed upon a defendant
convicted of murder in the first degree as defined in section 125.27  of
this chapter such minimum period shall be not less than twenty years nor
more than twenty-five years, and, (B) where a sentence is imposed upon a
defendant  convicted of murder in the second degree as defined in subdi-
vision five of section 125.25 of this chapter or convicted of aggravated
murder as defined in section 125.26 of this chapter, the sentence  shall
be  life  imprisonment  without  parole,  and,  (C)  where a sentence is
imposed upon a defendant convicted of  attempted  murder  in  the  first
degree as defined in article one hundred ten of this chapter and subpar-
agraph  (i), (ii) or (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision one and para-
graph (b) of subdivision one  of  section  125.27  of  this  chapter  or
attempted  aggravated  murder  as  defined in article one hundred ten of
this chapter and section 125.26 of  this  chapter  such  minimum  period
shall be not less than twenty years nor more than forty years.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08527-01-9

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