Senate Bill S1024

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to plea bargains in felony sex offense cases; provides that certain pleas shall result in certain minimum punishments

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee


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

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2017-S1024 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7995
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§220.10 & 220.30, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1400, A821
2011-2012: S225, A2451
2013-2014: S1068, A4009
2015-2016: S2980, A7366
2019-2020: S1338, A8803

2017-S1024 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that where a defendant is charged with a felony sex offense, then any plea of guilty must be or must include at least a plea of guilty to a sex felony.

2017-S1024 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1024 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1024
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. FUNKE, GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to plea bargains
   in felony sex offenses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 220.10 of the  criminal  procedure
 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
   (I)  WHERE  THE  INDICTMENT  CHARGES  A  FELONY DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE
 HUNDRED THIRTY OF THE PENAL LAW, THEN ANY PLEA OF GUILTY ENTERED  PURSU-
 ANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OR FOUR OF THIS SECTION MUST BE OR MUST INCLUDE
 AT  LEAST  A  PLEA  OF GUILTY TO A FELONY DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED
 THIRTY OF THE PENAL LAW; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  WHERE  THE  INDICTMENT
 CHARGES  A CLASS B OR A CLASS C FELONY AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED
 THIRTY OF THE PENAL LAW, THEN A PLEA OF GUILTY MUST INCLUDE AT  LEAST  A
 PLEA  OF  GUILTY  TO  A CLASS D FELONY AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED
 THIRTY OF THE PENAL LAW.
   § 2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (g) of subdivision 5  of  section
 220.10  of  the criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 264 of the
 laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii) Where the indictment  does  not  charge  a  crime  specified  in
 subparagraph  (i) of this paragraph, the district attorney may recommend
 removal of the action to the family court. Upon making such  recommenda-
 tion  the district attorney shall submit a subscribed memorandum setting
 forth: (1) a recommendation that the interests of justice would best  be
 served  by  removal  of  the  action to the family court; and (2) if the
 indictment charges a thirteen year old with the crime of murder  in  the
 second  degree[,  or  a  fourteen or fifteen year old with the crimes of
 rape in the first degree as defined in subdivision one of section 130.35
 of the penal law, or criminal sexual act in the first degree as  defined
 in  subdivision  one  of  section  130.50 of the penal law], or an armed
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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