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                                   6086
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to jury deliber-
   ation requirements
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 310.10 of the  criminal  procedure
 law, as amended by chapter 47 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. At any time after the jury has been charged or commenced its delib-
 erations,  and after notice to the parties and affording such parties an
 opportunity to be heard on the record outside of  the  presence  of  the
 jury,  the  court  may declare the deliberations to be in recess and may
 thereupon direct the jury to suspend its deliberations and  to  separate
 for  a  reasonable  period  of time to be specified by the court, not to
 exceed [twenty-four] FORTY-EIGHT hours[, except that]. HOWEVER,  in  the
 case  of  a Saturday, Sunday or holiday, OR A CIRCUMSTANCE WHICH CONSTI-
 TUTES GOOD CAUSE TO DELAY RESUMING DELIBERATIONS,  such  separation  may
 extend  beyond  such  [twenty-four] FORTY-EIGHT hour period. Before each
 recess, the court must admonish the jury as provided in  section  270.40
 of  this chapter and direct it not to resume its deliberations until all
 twelve jurors have reassembled in the designated  place  at  the  termi-
 nation of the declared recess.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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