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Senate Bill S4409
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 15th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
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2013-S4409 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-S4409 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S4409 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the penal law, in relation to making life imprisonment without parole mandatory for defendants convicted of murder in the first degree and the victim is a police officer PURPOSE: To require a mandatory life sentence without parole for the murder of police officers. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Amends section 60.06 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 482 of the laws of 2009, requiring a term of life imprisonment without parole upon the conviction for the crime of murder in the first degree as defined in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section 125.27 of this chapter. EXISTING LAW: In 2004, the New York State Court of Appeals, in the case of PEOPLE vs. LAVALLE, found that New York's existing capital punishment (death penalty) statute was unconstitutional and could not be enforced. This finding related to language in the law governing the instruction to be given to a jury in a capital case in the event that the jury became
2013-S4409 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4409 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 26, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making life imprisonment without parole mandatory for defendants convicted of murder in the first degree and the victim is a police officer THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 60.06 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 482 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: S 60.06 Authorized disposition; murder in the first degree offenders; aggravated murder offenders; certain murder in the second degree offenders; certain terrorism offenders; criminal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon offen- ders; criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon offenders. When a defendant is convicted of murder in the first degree as defined in section 125.27 of this chapter, the court shall, in accordance with the provisions of section 400.27 of the criminal procedure law, sentence the defendant to death, to life imprisonment without parole in accord- ance with subdivision five of section 70.00 of this title, or, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION FIVE OF SECTION 70.00 OF THIS TITLE, to a term of imprisonment for a class A-I felony other than a sentence of life imprisonment without parole, in accordance with subdivisions one through three of section 70.00 of this title. When a person is convicted of murder in the second degree as defined in subdivision five of section 125.25 of this chapter or of the crime of aggravated murder as defined in subdivision one of section 125.26 of this chapter, the court shall sentence the defendant to life imprisonment without parole in accordance with subdivision five of section 70.00 of this title. When a defendant is convicted of the crime of terrorism as defined in section 490.25 of this chapter, and the specified offense the defendant committed is a EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08038-01-3
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