Bill Text: NY A10436 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the number of peremptory challenges for certain cases including those that involve certain class B or C felonies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-23 - referred to codes [A10436 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10436-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10436
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 23, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LENTOL -- (at request of the Office of Court
          Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the number of
          peremptory challenges for certain cases
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of subdivision 2 of section 270.25 of the
     2  criminal procedure law is amended to read as follows:
     3    (b)  Fifteen for the regular jurors if the highest crime charged is  a
     4  class  B  or class C felony, other than a class B or C felony as defined
     5  in article two hundred twenty, and two for each alternate  juror  to  be
     6  selected.
     7    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after is shall
     8  have become a law and shall be applicable only to jury trials commencing
     9  on or after such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14518-01-8