A10588 Summary:
| BILL NO | A10588 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Rules (Paulin) |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Add §60.77, CP L | |
| Allows in a criminal proceeding in which a defendant is accused of a sexual offense admitting of evidence that the defendant committed other sexual offenses. | |
A10588 Actions:
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| 07/06/2022 | referred to codes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A10588 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10588 IN ASSEMBLY July 6, 2022 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to allowing evidence of a defendant's prior sex offenses to be admissible in a sex offense proceeding The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The criminal procedure law is amended by adding a new 2 section 60.77 to read as follows: 3 § 60.77 Rules of evidence; admissibility of defendant committing a prior 4 sex offense in a sex offense case. 5 1. In a criminal proceeding in which a defendant is accused of a sex 6 offense, the court may admit evidence that the defendant committed any 7 other sex offense. Such evidence may be considered on any matter to 8 which it is relevant. 9 2. For purposes of this section, "sex offense" shall include any 10 offense defined in article one hundred thirty or section 230.34 or 11 230.34-a of the penal law. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15041-03-2