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Assembly Bill A9520

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to preliminary proceedings involving apparently eligible juvenile offenders

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2015-A9520 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง720.15, CP L

2015-A9520 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to preliminary proceedings involving apparently eligible juvenile offenders.

2015-A9520 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9520

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 10, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LENTOL -- (at request of the Office of Court
  Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation  to  preliminary
  proceedings involving apparently eligible juvenile offenders

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 720.15 of the  criminal  procedure
law,  as  amended by chapter 774 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read
as follows:
  3. The provisions of subdivisions one and two of this section  requir-
ing or authorizing the accusatory instrument filed against a youth to be
sealed,  and  the  arraignment  and  all proceedings in the action to be
conducted in private shall not apply in connection with a pending charge
of committing any felony offense as defined in  the  penal  law,  EXCEPT
WHERE  THE YOUTH IS A JUVENILE OFFENDER AND THE ACCUSATORY INSTRUMENT IS
PENDING IN A LOCAL CRIMINAL COURT.   The provisions of  subdivision  one
requiring  the  accusatory instrument filed against a youth to be sealed
shall not apply where such  youth  has  previously  been  adjudicated  a
youthful offender or convicted of a crime.
  S  2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to crimi-
nal actions commenced on or after such effective date.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13991-01-6

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