Bill Text: NY A09828 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that in jurisdictions having a population of 60,000 or less, the time frame for a speedy trial shall be ninety days of the commencement of a criminal action wherein the defendant is accused of one or more offenses, at least one of which is a violation and none of which is a crime, instead of thirty days.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-19 - referred to codes [A09828 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09828-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9828

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 19, 2020
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to speedy trials

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 1 of section 30.30 of
     2  the  criminal  procedure law, paragraph (d) as amended and paragraph (e)
     3  as added by section 1 of part KKK of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, are
     4  amended to read as follows:
     5    (d) thirty days of the commencement of a criminal action  wherein  the
     6  defendant is accused of one or more offenses, at least one of which is a
     7  violation  and  none of which is a crime.  However, in those such juris-
     8  dictions having a population of sixty thousand or less, such time  frame
     9  shall  be  ninety  days of the commencement of a criminal action wherein
    10  the defendant is accused of one or more offenses, at least one of  which
    11  is a violation and none of which is a crime.
    12    [(e)  for  the  purposes  of  this subdivision, the term offense shall
    13  include vehicle and traffic law infractions.]
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14739-01-0