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Assembly Bill A322

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enables appellate review of the fairness and appropriateness of an imposed criminal sentence

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2025-A322 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S330
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §470.15, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A5687, S1280
2023-2024: A153, S938

2025-A322 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enables appellate review of the fairness and appropriateness of an imposed criminal sentence.

2025-A322 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    322
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CRUZ, MEEKS, ROSENTHAL, JACKSON -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure  law,  in  relation  to  enabling
   appellate  review  of  the  fairness and appropriateness of an imposed
   sentence

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of subdivision 2 of section 470.15 of the
 criminal procedure law is amended to read as follows:
   (c) Upon  a  determination  that  a  sentence  imposed  upon  a  valid
 conviction  is illegal or unduly harsh or severe, the court [may] SHALL,
 NOTWITHSTANDING AN OTHERWISE ENFORCEABLE WAIVER OF  APPEAL,  modify  the
 judgment  by  reversing it with respect to the sentence and by otherwise
 affirming it.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00163-01-5

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