Bill Text: NY A05094 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows for the admission of a defendant's previous declarations or statements when the crime committed is a hate crime.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A05094 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A05094-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5094 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 2, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the admission of a defendant's previous declarations or statements when the crime committed is a hate crime 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; previous declarations and statements; hate 4 crimes. 5 Evidence of a defendant's previous declarations or statements may be 6 admitted to show the defendant intentionally committed the act or acts 7 constituting a hate crime as set forth in article four hundred eighty- 8 five of the penal law in whole or in substantial part because of a 9 belief or perception regarding the race, color, national origin, ances- 10 try, gender, gender identity or expression, religion, religious prac- 11 tice, age, disability or sexual orientation of a person, subject to the 12 evidentiary rules governing criminal trials set forth in this title. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first on November next succeed- 14 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02766-01-3
