Bill Text: NY A03323 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires that persons convicted of multiple counts of rape in the first degree against different victims or the same victim, must serve the sentence for such convictions consecutively as well as consecutive to any other undischarged term of imprisonment to which the defendant was subject and for which he may be confined at the time of sentencing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to codes [A03323 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A03323-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3323
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 24, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. JACOBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to concurrent and consecutive
         terms of imprisonment
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 70.25 of the penal law is amended by adding  a  new
    2  subdivision 2-h to read as follows:
    3    2-H.  WHENEVER  A PERSON IS CONVICTED OF TWO OR MORE COUNTS OF RAPE IN
    4  THE FIRST DEGREE AS DEFINED IN SECTION 130.35 OF THIS CHAPTER, COMMITTED
    5  AGAINST DIFFERENT VICTIMS OR THE SAME VICTIM, IN SEPARATE  AND  DISTINCT
    6  SEXUAL  ACTS,  THEN  ANY TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT WHICH MAY BE IMPOSED AS A
    7  SENTENCE UPON SUCH CONVICTIONS SHALL RUN CONSECUTIVELY TO EACH OTHER AND
    8  TO ANY OTHER UNDISCHARGED TERM OF IMPRISONMENT TO  WHICH  THE  DEFENDANT
    9  WAS  SUBJECT  AND  FOR  WHICH  HE  OR SHE MAY BE CONFINED AT THE TIME OF
   10  SENTENCING.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   12  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.
                                                                  LBD03144-01-3
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