Assembly Bill A327

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires that a defendant must be over twenty-five years old to be guilty of felony murder

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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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2025-A327 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §125.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A6840
2023-2024: A3892

2025-A327 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that a defendant must be over twenty-five years old to be guilty of felony murder.

2025-A327 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    327
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to requiring that a defendant
   must be over twenty-five years old to be guilty of felony murder

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph and paragraph (d) of subdivision 3 of
 section  125.25  of  the  penal law, the opening paragraph as amended by
 chapter 23 of the laws of 2024 and paragraph (d) as amended  by  chapter
 477 of the laws of 1990, are amended to read as follows:
   Acting  either alone or with one or more other persons, [he] A DEFEND-
 ANT BEING MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD commits or attempts to  commit
 robbery,  burglary, kidnapping, arson, rape in the first degree, a crime
 formerly defined in section 130.50 of this title, the  crime  of  sexual
 abuse  in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse, escape in the first
 degree, or escape in the second degree, and, in the  course  of  and  in
 furtherance  of  such  crime  or of immediate flight therefrom, [he] THE
 DEFENDANT, or another participant, if there be any, causes the death  of
 a  person  other than one of the participants; except that in any prose-
 cution under this subdivision, in which the defendant was not  the  only
 participant  in  the underlying crime, it is an affirmative defense that
 the defendant:
   (d) Had no reasonable ground to believe  that  any  other  participant
 intended to engage in conduct likely to result in death or serious phys-
 ical injury[; or].
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00960-01-5

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