A10147 Summary:
BILL NO | A10147 |
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SAME AS | No Same As |
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SPONSOR | Rules (Brown K) |
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COSPNSR | Brown E, Angelino, Giglio JM, DeStefano, Hawley |
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Amd §245.10, CP L | |
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Changes the timing of certain discovery requirements to sixty days prior to trial. |
A10147 Actions:
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05/10/2024 | referred to codes |
A10147 Memo:
Go to topNEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)   BILL NUMBER: A10147 SPONSOR: Rules (Brown K)
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to changing the timing of certain discovery requirements to sixty days prior to trial   PURPOSE: Amends the criminal procedure law by to allow prosecutors the time to properly build cases against a defendant while allowing a defendant ample time to craft a defense by requiring discovery sixty days prior to the start of trial.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1: Establishes that the prosecution must fulfill discovery obli- gations no later sixty days prior to the start date of trial. Section 2: Establishes the effective date.   JUSTIFICATION: Prosecutors across New York have been struggling to meet the demands of the Discovery Reform laws passed in 2019. One major reason for these struggles has been the discovery timeframe requirement that all material to be used in trail must be given to the defendant within 20 days of arraignment. According to Division of Criminal Justice Services surveys, this 20-day requirement coupled with the additional information that prosecutors are now required to provide requires an expenditure of resources which most prosecutors' offices across the state are too over- burdened and understaffed to handle. With courts heavily congested, trial dates for defendants are set months to years after they are charged. In these cases, prosecutors are allot- ted only 20 days to organize a case against a defendant which will not be tried for potentially a year. By changing the discovery timeframe to be sixty days from the start of trail rather than twenty days from arraignment, prosecutors' offices will be less overburdened due to time- frames and defendants will still have ample time to craft a defense against what they are charges.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New bill   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately.
A10147 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10147 IN ASSEMBLY May 10, 2024 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to changing the timing of certain discovery requirements to sixty days prior to trial The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 2 of section 245.10 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by section 1 3 of part HHH of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, are amended to read as 4 follows: 5 (i) When a defendant is in custody during the pendency of the criminal 6 case, the prosecution shall perform its initial discovery obligations 7 [within twenty calendar days after the defendant's arraignment on an8indictment, superior court information, prosecutor's information, infor-9mation, simplified information, misdemeanor complaint or felony10complaint] no later than sixty days before the first scheduled trial 11 date. 12 (ii) When the defendant is not in custody during the pendency of the 13 criminal case, the prosecution shall perform its initial discovery obli- 14 gations [within thirty-five calendar days after the defendant's arraign-15ment on an indictment, superior court information, prosecutor's informa-16tion, information, simplified information, misdemeanor complaint or17felony complaint] no later than sixty days before the first scheduled 18 trial date. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15309-01-4