Bill Sponsors: NY A04689 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly

Bill Title: Establishes the actual innocence justice act of 2017; clarifies that convicted persons who can demonstrate a reasonable probability that they are innocent will have the right to challenge their convictions under the law, notwithstanding any other procedural or technical provisions of law that would have prevented them from doing so.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A04689 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Sponsors

NameTypeSponsorshipDistrictFinancialEncyclopediaBiography
Assemblymember Daniel O'Donnell [D]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-069FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Diane Richardson [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-043FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart

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