Assembly Bill A5688

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Facilitates appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern

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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-A5688 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1281
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §710.70, CP L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A152, A9117, S939, S8688

2021-A5688 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to facilitating appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern.

2021-A5688 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5688
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 23, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to  facilitating
   appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 710.70 of the  criminal  procedure
 law is amended to read as follows:
   2.  An order finally denying a motion to suppress evidence [may] SHALL
 be  reviewed  upon  an  appeal  from  an  ensuing judgment of conviction
 notwithstanding the fact that such judgment is entered upon  a  plea  of
 guilty AND NOT WITHSTANDING AN OTHERWISE ENFORCEABLE WAIVER OF THE RIGHT
 TO APPEAL.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD02764-01-1

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