Assembly Bill A4319

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the right of a defendant who has entered a plea of not guilty to an information which charges a misdemeanor to a jury trial

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  • 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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2021-A4319 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S689
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §340.40, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S9198
2019-2020: A3462, S33

2021-A4319 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the right of a defendant who has entered a plea of not guilty to an information which charges a misdemeanor to a jury trial.

2021-A4319 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4319
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the right of
   a defendant who has entered a plea of not  guilty  to  an  information
   which charges a misdemeanor to a jury trial

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 340.40 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by
 chapter 815 of the laws of 1971 and subdivision 7 as  added  by  chapter
 981 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
 § [340.00] 340.40 Modes of trial.
   1.  Except as otherwise provided in this section, a trial of an infor-
 mation in a local criminal court must be a single judge trial.
   2. In any local criminal court a defendant who has entered a  plea  of
 not  guilty  to  an  information  which  charges  a  misdemeanor must be
 accorded a jury trial,  conducted  pursuant  to  article  three  hundred
 sixty[,  except that in the New York city criminal court the trial of an
 information which charges a misdemeanor for which the authorized term of
 imprisonment is not more than six months must be a single judge  trial].
 The  defendant  may  at  any time before trial waive a jury trial in the
 manner prescribed in subdivision two of section 320.10 OF THIS  CHAPTER,
 and consent to a single judge trial.
   3. A defendant entitled to a jury trial pursuant to subdivision two OF
 THIS  SECTION,  shall  be  so  entitled even though the information also
 charges an offense for which he is otherwise  not  entitled  to  a  jury
 trial.  In such case, the defendant is not entitled both to a jury trial
 and a separate single judge trial and the court may not  order  separate
 trials.
   [7.] 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any local crim-
 inal  court  the  trial  of a person who is an eligible youth within the
 meaning of the youthful offender procedure set forth  in  article  seven
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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