Assembly Bill A1156

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Precludes inadmissible statements made by defendants because of false information and requires data collection of recorded interrogations

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2023-A1156 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2303
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §60.45, CP L; amd §344.2, Fam Ct Act
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6806
2021-2022: A6570, S324

2023-A1156 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Precludes inadmissible statements made by defendants because of false facts about evidence or because of a statement that undermines the reliability of the defendant's statement; requires data collection and analysis by the division of criminal justice services of recorded interrogations.

2023-A1156 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1156
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law and the family court act,  in
   relation  to  defendants' and juvenile respondents' statement admissi-
   bility and recorded interrogations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  1  and  2  of section 60.45 of the criminal
 procedure law are amended and a new subdivision 4 is added  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  Evidence  of  a  written  or  oral confession, admission, or other
 statement made by a defendant with respect to his OR  HER  participation
 or  lack of participation in the offense charged, may not be received in
 evidence against him OR HER in a criminal proceeding if  such  statement
 was involuntarily made.
   2.  A confession, admission or other statement is "involuntarily made"
 by a defendant when it is obtained from him OR HER:
   (a) By any person by the use or threatened use of physical force  upon
 the  defendant  or  another  person,  or  by means of any other improper
 conduct or undue pressure which impaired  the  defendant's  physical  or
 mental condition to the extent of undermining his OR HER ability to make
 a choice whether or not to make a statement; or
   (b)  By  a  public servant engaged in law enforcement activity or by a
 person then acting under his OR HER direction or in cooperation with him
 OR HER:
   (i) by means of any promise or statement of  fact,  which  promise  or
 statement  UNDERMINES  THE  RELIABILITY OF THE DEFENDANT'S STATEMENT, OR
 creates a substantial risk that the defendant might falsely  incriminate
 himself OR HERSELF; [or]
   (ii)  BY  KNOWINGLY  COMMUNICATING  FALSE  FACTS ABOUT EVIDENCE TO THE
 DEFENDANT; OR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03795-01-3
              

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