Bill Text: NY S06774 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Excludes any period of time during which a person who was wrongly convicted of a crime was serving a sentence of incarceration from the time limit applicable to timeliness of prosecution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CODES [S06774 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06774-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6774

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 14, 2021
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        Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to periods of
          limitation in calculating the timeliness of prosecution

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4 of section 30.10 of the criminal procedure
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) Any period of time following the commission of the offense  during
     4  which an individual was unjustly convicted and imprisoned as established
     5  pursuant to section eight-b of the court of claims act.
     6    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to prose-
     7  cutions for which the period of limitation has not expired  pursuant  to
     8  section 30.10 of the criminal procedure law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10727-01-1