Assembly Bill A10363

                             
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                                   10363
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 21, 2024
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 Introduced   by   COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at  request  of  M.  of  A.
   Bichotte Hermelyn) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in  relation  to  preserving
   the  ability  to  appeal  a violation of a defendant's right to make a
   statement personally in his or her own behalf at sentencing

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 380.50 of the criminal procedure
 law, as amended by chapter 307 of the laws of 1992, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   1.  At  the  time  of  pronouncing sentence, the court must accord the
 prosecutor an opportunity to make a statement with respect to any matter
 relevant to the question of sentence. The court must then accord counsel
 for the defendant an opportunity to speak on behalf  of  the  defendant.
 The  defendant  also has the right to make a statement personally in his
 or her own behalf, and before pronouncing sentence the  court  must  ask
 the  defendant  whether  he  or  she  wishes to make such a statement. A
 DEFENDANT MAY CHALLENGE ON APPEAL, NOTWITHSTANDING  AN  OTHERWISE  VALID
 WAIVER  OF  APPEAL,  A  VIOLATION  OF  THE DEFENDANT'S RIGHTS UNDER THIS
 SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05639-01-3