Bill Text: NY A03462 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the right of a defendant who has entered a plea of not guilty to an information which charges a misdemeanor to a jury trial.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - ordered to third reading cal.144 [A03462 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03462-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3462 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the right of a defendant who has entered a plea of not guilty to an information which charges a misdemeanor to a jury trial The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 340.40 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by 2 chapter 815 of the laws of 1971 and subdivision 7 as added by chapter 3 981 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows: 4 § [340.00] 340.40 Modes of trial. 5 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a trial of an infor- 6 mation in a local criminal court must be a single judge trial. 7 2. In any local criminal court a defendant who has entered a plea of 8 not guilty to an information which charges a misdemeanor must be 9 accorded a jury trial, conducted pursuant to article three hundred 10 sixty[, except that in the New York city criminal court the trial of an11information which charges a misdemeanor for which the authorized term of12imprisonment is not more than six months must be a single judge trial]. 13 The defendant may at any time before trial waive a jury trial in the 14 manner prescribed in subdivision two of section 320.10 of this chapter, 15 and consent to a single judge trial. 16 3. A defendant entitled to a jury trial pursuant to subdivision two of 17 this section, shall be so entitled even though the information also 18 charges an offense for which he is otherwise not entitled to a jury 19 trial. In such case, the defendant is not entitled both to a jury trial 20 and a separate single judge trial and the court may not order separate 21 trials. 22 [7.] 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any local crim- 23 inal court the trial of a person who is an eligible youth within the 24 meaning of the youthful offender procedure set forth in article seven EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03195-01-9A. 3462 2 1 hundred twenty of this chapter and who has not prior to commencement of 2 the trial been convicted of a crime or adjudicated a youthful offender 3 must be a single judge trial. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 5 the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately 6 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces- 7 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 8 authorized to be made on or before such date.