NY State Senate Bill 2021-S2723

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Jan 05, 2022	referred to codes
Jan 22, 2021	referred to codes

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2021-S2723 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A4152
Current Committee:: Senate Codes
Law Section:: Penal Law
Laws Affected:: Add §265.07, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: A6495
2011-2012: S2694, A2907
2013-2014: S3268, A2190
2015-2016: S3054, A1514
2017-2018: S3358, A2724
2019-2020: S3984, A2645
2023-2024: A1762

2021-S2723 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the crime of related use of a lethal or explosive device; provides for additional 10 years imprisonment for certain crimes where a lethal or explosive device is used and; permits exemption from such additional sentence when the defendant provides court with the source of such lethal or explosive device.

2021-S2723 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S2723

SPONSOR: KRUEGER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the penal law, in relation to the related use of a
lethal or explosive device

 
PURPOSE:

To impose a sentence of ten years consecutive to whatever sentence is
imposed on the underlying offense when the defendant possesses a lethal
device such as a machine gun, pistol, revolver, shotgun, rifle, assault
weapon, electric dart, stun gun, explosive device, bomb, grenade, rock-
et, missile or mine.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This legislation would add an additional consecutive sentence of ten
years onto the sentence of an offender who commits any offense while in
possession of a lethal or explosive device as described in the preceding

paragraph.

That additional ten year sentence will not be imposed if the defendant,
within 60 days of arraignment on the indictment or superior court infor-
mation, truthfully to the satisfaction of the court provides the
district attorney with all the information the defendant has concerning
the source or the sources of the lethal or explosive device.

The additional ten year sentence will not be waived when the use of the
lethal or explosive device has resulted in the death of or serious inju-
ry to a person who was not a participant in the offense.  A defendant
who qualifies for the waiver will be RULED out and will not have to
serve the added consecutive ten year term. Those who fail to qualify
will be ruled in and will have to serve that consecutive term. Most of
the illegal weapons used against New Yorkers do not lawfully originate
within the State of New York and are smuggled into our state by lucra-
tive underground networks. Intelligence garnered through the truthful
debriefings of those who possess such illegal weapons while committing
other crimes will provide substantial assistance to law enforcement in
its effort to combat these underground smuggling networks. The ability
to gather such crucially important intelligence will also provide
substantial assistance to law enforcement in its effort to battle gangs
and other underground criminal networks, which enterprises will be
severely hampered once their criminal members have to fear that a
conspirator arrested with a weapon while committing a crime will have to
provide otherwise secretive intelligence on pain of having to serve an
additional ten years consecutive to the prison term imposed on the
underlying offense.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2019-20: S.3984/A.2645 - Lavine -  Codes Committee
2017-18: S.3358/A.2724 - Lavine - Codes Committee
2015-16: S.3054/A.1514 - Lavine - Codes Committee
2013-14: S.3268/A.2190 - Lavine - Codes Committee
2011-12: S.2694/A.2907 - Lavine - Codes Committee

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Takes effect on the first November next succeeding the date on which it
shall become law.

2021-S2723 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2723
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 22, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. KRUEGER, LIU -- 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  the  related  use  of  a
   lethal or explosive device
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 265.07  to
 read as follows:
 § 265.07 RELATED USE OF LETHAL OR EXPLOSIVE DEVICE.
   1.  A  PERSON IS GUILTY OF RELATED USE OF A LETHAL OR EXPLOSIVE DEVICE
 WHEN HE OR SHE COMMITS ANY OFFENSE WHILE IN POSSESSION OF  A  LETHAL  OR
 EXPLOSIVE DEVICE.
   2.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER  PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, ANY
 PERSON CONVICTED OF RELATED USE OF A LETHAL OR EXPLOSIVE  DEVICE  SHALL,
 IN  ADDITION  TO  THE  PUNISHMENT PROVIDED FOR THE RELATED OR UNDERLYING
 OFFENSE, BE SENTENCED TO A DETERMINATE  TERM  OF  IMPRISONMENT  FOR  TEN
 YEARS,  AND  THE  TERM  OF IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION
 SHALL NOT RUN CONCURRENTLY WITH ANY OTHER TERM OF IMPRISONMENT INCLUDING
 THAT IMPOSED FOR THE RELATED OR UNDERLYING CRIME.
   3. ANY SUCH NON-CONCURRENT TERM REQUIRED TO  BE  IMPOSED  PURSUANT  TO
 THIS SECTION SHALL, HOWEVER, NOT BE IMPOSED IF:
   (A) THE DEFENDANT, WITHIN SIXTY DAYS OF THE DATE OF ARRAIGNMENT ON THE
 INDICTMENT  OR SUPERIOR COURT INFORMATION, WHICH SIXTY DAY PERIOD MAY BE
 EXTENDED IN THE DISCRETION OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, SHALL TRUTHFULLY TO
 THE SATISFACTION OF THE COURT PROVIDE THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY WITH ALL THE
 INFORMATION THE DEFENDANT HAS CONCERNING THE SOURCE OR  SOURCES  OF  THE
 LETHAL OR EXPLOSIVE DEVICE; AND
   (B)  THE  USE  OF  SUCH LETHAL OR EXPLOSIVE DEVICE HAS NOT RESULTED IN
 DEATH OR SERIOUS BODILY INJURY TO ANOTHER PERSON WHO WAS NOT  A  PARTIC-
 IPANT IN THE OFFENSE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06639-01-1

 S. 2723                             2
 
   4.  SO  LONG  AS  THE STATEMENTS MADE BY THE DEFENDANT TO THE DISTRICT
 ATTORNEY RELATING TO THE SOURCES OF THE LETHAL OR EXPLOSIVE  DEVICE  ARE
 TRUTHFUL,  THEN  (A)  NO  STATEMENT  SO  MADE  SHALL BE USED AS EVIDENCE
 AGAINST THE DEFENDANT  IN  ANY  CRIMINAL  PROCEEDINGS  EXCEPT  THAT  THE
 DISTRICT  ATTORNEY MAY USE SUCH STATEMENTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CROSS-EXA-
 MINATION, IMPEACHMENT AND  REBUTTAL  SHOULD  THE  DEFENDANT  EVER  OFFER
 CONTRARY  EVIDENCE,  AND  (B)  THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY MAY USE AS EVIDENCE
 AGAINST THE DEFENDANT ANY INDEPENDENT  EVIDENCE  WHICH  MAY  BE  DERIVED
 THROUGH  AN  INVESTIGATION  INTO  THE  INFORMATION  SO  PROFFERED BY THE
 DEFENDANT. AT ANY HEARING ON THE ISSUE OF WHETHER THE DEFENDANT'S STATE-
 MENTS ARE TRUTHFUL, THE PEOPLE SHALL BEAR THE BURDEN OF SHOWING THAT THE
 STATEMENTS ARE NOT TRUTHFUL BY PROOF BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.
   5. THE TERM: (A) "LETHAL DEVICE" SHALL MEAN A MACHINE GUN, A PISTOL OR
 REVOLVER, EITHER A SHOTGUN, RIFLE OR ASSAULT WEAPON OF ANY LENGTH OR ANY
 OBJECT MADE THEREFROM BY ALTERATION, MODIFICATION OR OTHERWISE, AN ELEC-
 TRONIC DART GUN, AND AN ELECTRONIC STUN GUN.
   (B) "EXPLOSIVE DEVICE" SHALL MEAN ANY EXPLOSIVE, INCENDIARY OR  POISON
 GAS,  BOMB, GRENADE, ROCKET HAVING A PROPELLANT CHARGE OF MORE THAN FOUR
 OUNCES, MISSILE HAVING AN EXPLOSIVE OR INCENDIARY CHARGE  OF  MORE  THAN
 ONE-QUARTER  OUNCE,  MINE  OR  ANY  DEVICE SIMILAR TO ANY OF THE DEVICES
 DESCRIBED IN THIS SUBDIVISION.
   (C) "EXPLOSIVE" SHALL MEAN ANY CHEMICAL COMPOUND  MIXTURE  OR  DEVICE,
 THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF WHICH IS TO FUNCTION BY EXPLOSION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

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Senate Bill S2723

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee

co-Sponsors

2021-S2723 (ACTIVE) - Details

2021-S2723 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2021-S2723 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2723 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Sponsored By

Liz Krueger

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee

co-Sponsors

John C. Liu

2021-S2723 (ACTIVE) - Details

2021-S2723 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2021-S2723 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2723 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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