Bill Text: NY A08381 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to granting certain individuals youthful offender status; adds a new category of individuals eligible for young adult offender status and first offender status.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A08381 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08381-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8381--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 15, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  criminal  procedure  law  and the penal law, in
          relation to granting certain individuals youthful offender status;  to
          add  a  new  category of individuals eligible for young adult offender
          status and first offender status; and to repeal certain provisions  of
          the criminal procedure law relating thereto

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

     1    Section 1. Section 720.10 of the criminal procedure law, as  added  by
     2  chapter 981 of the laws of 1971, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 411
     3  of the laws of 1979, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 416 of the laws
     4  of 1986, paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 316 of the
     5  laws  of  2006,  subdivision  3 as amended by chapter 264 of the laws of
     6  2003, and subdivisions 4, 5 and 6 as renumbered by chapter  481  of  the
     7  laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
     8  § 720.10 Youthful offender procedure; definition of terms.
     9    As  used in this article, the following terms have the following mean-
    10  ings:
    11    1. ["Youth"] "Eligible youth" means a  person  charged  with  a  crime
    12  alleged to have been committed when he or she was at least sixteen years
    13  old  and  less  than nineteen years old or a person charged with being a
    14  juvenile offender as defined in subdivision forty-two of section 1.20 of
    15  this chapter.
    16    2. ["Eligible youth" means a youth who  is  eligible  to  be  found  a
    17  youthful offender. Every youth is so eligible unless:
    18    (a)  the  conviction  to be replaced by a youthful offender finding is
    19  for (i) a class A-I or class A-II felony, or (ii)  an  armed  felony  as
    20  defined  in subdivision forty-one of section 1.20, except as provided in
    21  subdivision three, or (iii) rape in the first  degree,  criminal  sexual

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13234-03-9

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     1  act  in the first degree, or aggravated sexual abuse, except as provided
     2  in subdivision three, or
     3    (b) such youth has previously been convicted and sentenced for a felo-
     4  ny, or
     5    (c)  such  youth  has  previously been adjudicated a youthful offender
     6  following conviction of a felony or has been  adjudicated  on  or  after
     7  September  first,  nineteen  hundred seventy-eight a juvenile delinquent
     8  who committed a designated felony act as defined  in  the  family  court
     9  act.
    10    3.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two, a youth who has
    11  been convicted of an armed felony  offense  or  of  rape  in  the  first
    12  degree,  criminal  sexual  act in the first degree, or aggravated sexual
    13  abuse is an eligible youth if the court determines that one or  more  of
    14  the  following  factors  exist:  (i)  mitigating circumstances that bear
    15  directly upon the manner in which the crime was committed; or (ii) where
    16  the defendant was not the sole participant in the crime, the defendant's
    17  participation was relatively minor although not so minor as  to  consti-
    18  tute  a  defense to the prosecution. Where the court determines that the
    19  eligible youth is a youthful offender, the court shall make a  statement
    20  on  the  record  of  the  reasons for its determination, a transcript of
    21  which shall be forwarded to  the  state  division  of  criminal  justice
    22  services,  to  be  kept in accordance with the provisions of subdivision
    23  three of section eight hundred thirty-seven-a of the executive law.
    24    4.] "Youthful offender finding" means a finding, substituted  for  the
    25  conviction  of  an  eligible youth, pursuant to a determination that the
    26  eligible youth is a youthful offender.
    27    [5.] 3. "Youthful offender sentence" means the sentence imposed upon a
    28  youthful offender finding.
    29    [6.] 4. "Youthful offender adjudication". A youthful offender  adjudi-
    30  cation  is  comprised  of  a  youthful offender finding and the youthful
    31  offender sentence imposed thereon and is  completed  by  imposition  and
    32  entry of the youthful offender sentence.
    33    §  2. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 720.15 of the criminal procedure
    34  law are REPEALED.
    35    § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 720.20 of the criminal procedure law, as
    36  amended by chapter 652 of the laws  of  1974,  is  amended  to  read  as
    37  follows:
    38    1.   Upon conviction of an eligible youth, the court must order a pre-
    39  sentence investigation of the defendant.   After receipt  of  a  written
    40  report  of the investigation and at the time of pronouncing sentence the
    41  court must determine whether or not the eligible  youth  is  a  youthful
    42  offender.   Such determination shall be in accordance with the following
    43  criteria:
    44    (a) If the eligible youth is charged with a violation or a misdemeanor
    45  offense, a class D or E felony offense, a class C felony as described in
    46  subdivision one of section 160.10  of  the  penal  law  or  any  offense
    47  contained  in  article  two  hundred  twenty of the penal law, the court
    48  shall find that he or she is a youthful offender.
    49    (b) In all other cases, if in the opinion of the court the interest of
    50  justice would be served by relieving the eligible youth from the onus of
    51  a criminal record and the  attendant  collateral  consequences  of  that
    52  permanent  criminal  record and by not imposing an indeterminate term of
    53  imprisonment of more than four years, the court may, in its  discretion,
    54  find the eligible youth is a youthful offender[; and
    55    (b)    Where  the  conviction is had in a local criminal court and the
    56  eligible youth had not prior to commencement of trial or entry of a plea

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     1  of guilty been convicted of a crime or found a  youthful  offender,  the
     2  court must find he is a youthful offender.]
     3    (c)  There shall be a presumption to grant youthful offender status to
     4  an eligible youth. The district attorney may challenge this  presumption
     5  by  filing  a motion with the court, with at least seven days' notice to
     6  the eligible youth and  his  or  her  attorney,  showing  by  clear  and
     7  convincing  evidence that the interests of justice require the court not
     8  to grant youthful offender status.
     9    § 4. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of  subdivision  3  of  section
    10  220.30  of  the criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 410 of the
    11  laws of 1979, is amended to read as follows:
    12    (i) A plea of guilty, whether to the entire indictment or to  part  of
    13  the  indictment  for  any  crime other than a class A felony, may not be
    14  accepted on the condition that it constitutes a complete disposition  of
    15  one or more other indictments against the defendant wherein is charged a
    16  class  A-I  felony as defined in article two hundred twenty of the penal
    17  law or the attempt to commit any such class A-I felony, except  that  an
    18  eligible  youth,  as defined in subdivision [two] one of section 720.10,
    19  may plea to a class B felony, upon consent of the district attorney, for
    20  purposes of adjudication as a youthful offender.
    21    § 5. Subdivision 3 of section 420.30 of the criminal procedure law, as
    22  amended by section 5 of part F of chapter 56 of the  laws  of  2004,  is
    23  amended to read as follows:
    24    3. Restrictions. In no event shall a mandatory surcharge, sex offender
    25  registration  fee,  DNA  databank  fee or crime victim assistance fee be
    26  remitted provided, however, that a court  may  waive  the  crime  victim
    27  assistance  fee  if  such  defendant  is an eligible youth as defined in
    28  subdivision [two] one of section 720.10 of this chapter, and the imposi-
    29  tion of such fee would work an unreasonable hardship on  the  defendant,
    30  his  or  her  immediate  family, or any other person who is dependent on
    31  such defendant for financial support.
    32    § 6. Subdivision 2 of section 420.35 of the criminal procedure law, as
    33  amended by chapter 189 of the laws  of  2018,  is  amended  to  read  as
    34  follows:
    35    2.  Under no circumstances shall the mandatory surcharge, sex offender
    36  registration fee, DNA databank fee or the crime victim assistance fee be
    37  waived provided, however, that  a  court  may  waive  the  crime  victim
    38  assistance  fee  if  such  defendant  is an eligible youth as defined in
    39  subdivision [two] one of section 720.10 of this chapter, and the imposi-
    40  tion of such fee would work an unreasonable hardship on  the  defendant,
    41  his  or  her  immediate  family, or any other person who is dependent on
    42  such defendant for financial support. A court shall waive any  mandatory
    43  surcharge,  DNA  databank  fee and crime victim assistance fee when: (i)
    44  the defendant is convicted of loitering for the purpose of  engaging  in
    45  prostitution  under  section  240.37 of the penal law (provided that the
    46  defendant was not convicted of loitering for the purpose of  patronizing
    47  a person for prostitution); (ii) the defendant is convicted of prostitu-
    48  tion  under  section  230.00  of  the  penal law; (iii) the defendant is
    49  convicted of a violation in the event such conviction is in  lieu  of  a
    50  plea to or conviction for loitering for the purpose of engaging in pros-
    51  titution  under  section  240.37  of  the  penal  law (provided that the
    52  defendant was not alleged to be loitering for the purpose of patronizing
    53  a person for prostitution) or prostitution under section 230.00  of  the
    54  penal  law;  or (iv) the court finds that a defendant is a victim of sex
    55  trafficking under section 230.34 of the penal law or a victim  of  traf-
    56  ficking  in persons under the trafficking victims protection act (United

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     1  States Code, Title 22, Chapter 78); or (v)  the  court  finds  that  the
     2  defendant  is  a  victim  of  sex  trafficking  of a child under section
     3  230.34-a of the penal law.
     4    § 7. The criminal procedure law is amended by adding a new article 721
     5  to read as follows:
     6                                 ARTICLE 721
     7                             YOUNG ADULT STATUS

     8  Section 721.10 Young adult status procedure; definition of terms.
     9          721.15 Young  adult  status  procedure;  sealing  of  accusatory
    10                   instrument;   privacy   of   proceedings;   preliminary
    11                   instructions to jury.
    12          721.20 Young  adult  status  determination;  when  and how made;
    13                   procedure thereupon.
    14          721.30 Young  adult  adjudication;  post-judgment  motions   and
    15                   appeal.
    16          721.35 Young adult adjudication; effect thereof; records.
    17  § 721.10 Young adult status procedure; definition of terms.
    18    As  used in this article, the following terms have the following mean-
    19  ings:
    20    1. "Eligible young adult" means a  person  charged  with  a  crime  or
    21  offense alleged to have been committed when he or she was at least nine-
    22  teen years old and less than twenty-five years old.
    23    2.  "Young  adult  finding"  means  a  finding,  substituted  for  the
    24  conviction of an eligible young adult, pursuant to a determination  that
    25  the eligible young adult shall be granted young adult status.
    26    3.  "Young  adult  sentence"  means  the sentence imposed upon a young
    27  adult finding.
    28    4. "Young adult adjudication" means an  adjudication  comprised  of  a
    29  young  adult finding and the young adult sentence imposed thereon and is
    30  completed by imposition and entry of the young adult sentence.
    31  § 721.15 Young adult status procedure; sealing of accusatory instrument;
    32             privacy of proceedings; preliminary instructions to jury.
    33    1. When an accusatory instrument against an apparently eligible  young
    34  adult  is  filed with a court, it shall be filed as a sealed instrument,
    35  though only with respect to the public.
    36    2. When a young  adult  is  initially  arraigned  upon  an  accusatory
    37  instrument, such arraignment and all proceedings in the action thereaft-
    38  er  may,  in  the  discretion  of  the court and with the consent of the
    39  accused, be conducted in private.
    40  § 721.20 Young adult status determination; when and how made;  procedure
    41             thereupon.
    42    Upon  conviction  of  an  eligible young adult, the court must order a
    43  pre-sentence investigation of the defendant. After receipt of a  written
    44  report  of the investigation and at the time of pronouncing sentence the
    45  court must determine whether or not the  eligible  youth  shall  receive
    46  young  adult status.  Such determination shall be in accordance with the
    47  following criteria:
    48    1. If the eligible young adult is charged with a violation or a misde-
    49  meanor offense, the court shall find that he or she  is  a  young  adult
    50  offender;
    51    2.  In all other cases, if in the opinion of the court the interest of
    52  justice would be served by relieving the eligible young adult  from  the
    53  onus  of  a criminal record and the attendant collateral consequences of
    54  that permanent criminal record and by not imposing an indeterminate term

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     1  of  imprisonment  of  more  than  ten  years,  the  court  may,  in  its
     2  discretion, find the eligible young adult is a young adult offender; and
     3    3.  There  shall  be  a  presumption to grant young adult status to an
     4  eligible young adult, unless the district attorney upon motion with  not
     5  less  than  seven  days'  notice  to  such person or his or her attorney
     6  demonstrates to the satisfaction of  the  court  that  the  interest  of
     7  justice require otherwise.
     8  § 721.30 Young adult adjudication; post-judgment motions and appeal.
     9    The provisions of this chapter, governing the making and determination
    10  of  post-judgment motions and the taking and determination of appeals in
    11  criminal cases, apply to post judgment motions and appeals with  respect
    12  to  young adult adjudications wherever such provisions can reasonably be
    13  so applied.
    14  § 721.35 Young adult adjudication; effect thereof; records.
    15    1. A young adult adjudication is not a judgment of  conviction  for  a
    16  crime  or  any other offense, and does not operate as a disqualification
    17  of any person so adjudged to hold public office or public employment  or
    18  to receive any license granted by public authority but shall be deemed a
    19  conviction  only for the purposes of transfer of supervision and custody
    20  pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-m of the executive law.
    21    2. Except where specifically required or permitted by statute or  upon
    22  specific  authorization  of the court, upon receipt of notification of a
    23  young adult adjudication:
    24    (a) every photograph of such young adult  and  photographic  plate  or
    25  proof,  and  all palmprints and fingerprints taken or made of such young
    26  adult pursuant to the provisions of this article in regard to the action
    27  or proceeding terminated, and all duplicates and copies thereof,  except
    28  a  digital  fingerprint image where authorized pursuant to paragraph (d)
    29  of this subdivision, shall forthwith be, at the discretion of the recip-
    30  ient agency, either destroyed or returned to such young adult, or to the
    31  attorney who represented the young adult at the time of the  termination
    32  of  the  action  or  proceeding,  at the address given by such person or
    33  attorney during the action or proceeding, by the  division  of  criminal
    34  justice services and by any police;
    35    (b)  any  police  department  or law enforcement agency, including the
    36  division of criminal justice services, which  transmitted  or  otherwise
    37  forwarded to any agency of the United States or of any other state or of
    38  any  other jurisdiction outside the state of New York copies of any such
    39  photographs, photographic plates or proofs, palmprints and fingerprints,
    40  shall formally request in writing that all such copies be  destroyed  or
    41  returned to the police department or law enforcement agency which trans-
    42  mitted or forwarded them, and upon such return such department or agency
    43  shall,  at  its  discretion,  either  destroy or return them as provided
    44  under this subdivision;
    45    (c) all official records and papers relating to the arrest  or  prose-
    46  cution,  including  all  duplicates and copies thereof, on file with the
    47  division of criminal justice services, police  agency,  or  prosecutor's
    48  office shall be sealed and not made available to any person or public or
    49  private agency;
    50    (d) the records referred to in paragraph (b) of this subdivision shall
    51  be  made  available  to the young adult accused or to such young adult's
    52  designated agent, and shall be made available to (i) a prosecutor in any
    53  proceeding in which the accused has  moved  for  an  order  pursuant  to
    54  section  170.56  or  210.46  of  this chapter, or (ii) a law enforcement
    55  agency upon ex parte motion in any superior court, or  in  any  district
    56  court, city court or the criminal court of the city of New York provided

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     1  that  such  court  sealed the record, if such agency demonstrates to the
     2  satisfaction of the court that justice requires  that  such  records  be
     3  made available to it, or (iii) any state or local officer or agency with
     4  responsibility  for  the  issuance of licenses to possess guns, when the
     5  accused has made application for such a license, or (iv)  the  New  York
     6  state  department  of  corrections  and  community  supervision when the
     7  accused is under parole supervision as a result of  conditional  release
     8  or  parole release granted by the New York state board of parole and the
     9  arrest which is the subject of the inquiry is one which  occurred  while
    10  the  accused was under such supervision, or (v) the probation department
    11  responsible for supervision of the accused when the arrest which is  the
    12  subject of the inquiry is one which occurred while the accused was under
    13  such supervision;
    14    (e)  at  no time shall such notification be used for any purpose other
    15  than those specified in this subdivision, provided, however, that infor-
    16  mation regarding an order of protection or temporary order of protection
    17  issued pursuant to section 530.12 of this part or a  warrant  issued  in
    18  connection  therewith may be maintained on the statewide automated order
    19  of protection and warrant registry established pursuant to  section  two
    20  hundred  twenty-one-a  of  the executive law during the period that such
    21  order of protection or temporary order of protection is  in  full  force
    22  and  effect or during which such warrant may be executed. Such confiden-
    23  tial information may be made available pursuant to law only for purposes
    24  of adjudicating or enforcing such order of protection or temporary order
    25  of protection; and
    26    (f) where fingerprints subject to the provisions of this section  have
    27  been received by the division of criminal justice services and have been
    28  filed  by  the  division as digital images, such images may be retained,
    29  provided that a fingerprint card of the individual is on file  with  the
    30  division which was not sealed pursuant to this section or section 160.50
    31  of this chapter.
    32    §  8.  The  criminal  procedure law is amended by adding a new section
    33  440.48 to read as follows:
    34  § 440.48 Resentencing; youthful offender.
    35    1. Any person under the age of twenty-five at the time the  crime  was
    36  committed  who  was  convicted of a misdemeanor or violation offense who
    37  would have been considered an "eligible youth" pursuant  to  subdivision
    38  one  of  section  720.10  of  this chapter and an "eligible young adult"
    39  pursuant to subdivision one of section 721.10 of this chapter after  the
    40  effective date of this section shall have their conviction automatically
    41  replaced  with  a youthful offender adjudication or young adult offender
    42  adjudication within six months of such date. The  division  of  criminal
    43  justice  services  shall establish standards to ensure that such process
    44  occurs automatically for all persons prior to such six month deadline.
    45    2. Any person under the age of twenty-five at the time the  crime  was
    46  committed who would have been considered an "eligible youth" pursuant to
    47  subdivision one of section 720.10 of this chapter and an "eligible young
    48  adult"  pursuant  to  subdivision  one of section 721.10 of this chapter
    49  after the effective date of this section, upon notice to the appropriate
    50  district attorney, may petition to be resentenced to a youthful offender
    51  adjudication or young adult offender  adjudication  in  accordance  with
    52  articles seven hundred twenty and seven hundred twenty-one of this chap-
    53  ter in the court which imposed such sentence. Even if a person is eligi-
    54  ble for automatic youthful offender adjudication or young adult offender
    55  adjudication  sealing  pursuant to subdivision one of this section, such

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     1  person may still petition the court for resentencing prior  to  the  six
     2  month period described in subdivision one of this section.
     3    3. The court shall consider the factors outlined in subdivision one of
     4  section  720.20 and subdivision one of section 721.20 of this chapter in
     5  determining whether or not a person who  would  have  been  an  eligible
     6  youth  may  or  shall be granted youthful offender status or young adult
     7  offender status for the prior conviction.
     8    (a) In cases where granting youthful offender status  or  young  adult
     9  offender  status  is  discretionary and not required by paragraph (a) of
    10  subdivision one of section 720.20 or paragraph (a) of subdivision one of
    11  section 721.20 of this chapter, the court shall also consider any  addi-
    12  tional evidence presented by the person seeking resentencing, including:
    13    (i)  the  amount  of time that has elapsed since the petitioner's last
    14  conviction;
    15    (ii) the character of the petitioner, including any measures  that  he
    16  or she has taken towards rehabilitation, such as participating in treat-
    17  ment  programs,  work,  or  schooling,  and  participating  in community
    18  service or other volunteer programs;
    19    (iii) the circumstances and seriousness of the offense for  which  the
    20  petitioner is seeking relief;
    21    (iv)  the  impact  of  sealing the petitioner's record upon his or her
    22  rehabilitation and upon his or her successful and productive reentry and
    23  reintegration into society; and
    24    (v) the impact of collateral consequences of  the  conviction  on  the
    25  defendant and his or her family.
    26    (b)  The  district  attorney  may  challenge  the presumption to grant
    27  youthful offender status pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision one of
    28  section 720.20 and paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section 721.20 of
    29  this chapter.
    30    § 9. The criminal procedure law is amended by adding a new article 726
    31  to read as follows:
    32                                 ARTICLE 726
    33                            FIRST OFFENDER STATUS
    34  Section 726.10 First offender status procedure; definition of terms.
    35          726.20 First offender status determination; when and  how  made;
    36                   procedure thereupon.
    37          726.30 First  offender  adjudication;  post-judgment motions and
    38                   appeal.
    39          726.35 First offender adjudication; effect thereof; records.
    40  § 726.10 First offender status procedure; definition of terms.
    41    As used in this article, the following terms shall have the  following
    42  meanings:
    43    1.  "Eligible first offender" means any person who stands charged with
    44  a felony or misdemeanor offense alleged to have been committed  when  he
    45  or she was aged twenty-five years or older unless:
    46    (a)  Such  offender  has been previously convicted and sentenced for a
    47  felony, or
    48    (b) Such offender has been previously adjudicated a youthful  offender
    49  following  conviction for a felony or has been adjudicated a young adult
    50  offender following a conviction for a felony.
    51    2. "First offender finding"  means  a  finding,  substituted  for  the
    52  conviction  of  an  eligible first offender, pursuant to a determination
    53  that the eligible first offender shall be granted first offender status.
    54    3. "First offender sentence" means the sentence imposed upon  a  first
    55  offender finding.

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     1    4.  "First offender adjudication" means an adjudication comprised of a
     2  first offender finding and the first offender sentence  imposed  thereon
     3  and is completed by imposition and entry of the first offender sentence.
     4  § 726.20 First  offender status determination; when and how made; proce-
     5             dure thereupon.
     6    1. Upon conviction of an eligible first offender, the court must order
     7  a pre-sentence investigation of the defendant. After receipt of a  writ-
     8  ten  report of the investigation and at the time of pronouncing sentence
     9  the court must determine whether or not  the  eligible  defendant  shall
    10  receive first offender status. Such determination shall be in accordance
    11  with the following criteria:
    12    (a)  If  the  eligible first offender is charged with a violation or a
    13  misdemeanor offense, the court shall find that he  or  she  is  a  first
    14  offender;
    15    (b) In all other cases, if in the opinion of the court the interest of
    16  justice would be served by relieving the eligible offender from the onus
    17  of  a  criminal record and the attendant collateral consequences of that
    18  permanent criminal record, the court may, in its  discretion,  find  the
    19  eligible offender is a first offender; and
    20    (c)  There shall be a presumption to grant first offender status to an
    21  eligible first offender, unless the district attorney upon  motion  with
    22  not  less  than seven days' notice to such person or his or her attorney
    23  demonstrates to the satisfaction of  the  court  that  the  interest  of
    24  justice require otherwise.
    25    2. When an authorized court determines, pursuant to subdivision one of
    26  this  section,  that  the  defendant  is an eligible first offender, the
    27  following sentences may be imposed:
    28    (a) An authorized prison sentence pursuant to article seventy  of  the
    29  penal law;
    30    (b)  An  authorized  sentence  of probation, conditional discharge, or
    31  unconditional discharge pursuant to article sixty-five of the penal law;
    32  or
    33    (c) Any other authorized disposition pursuant to article sixty of  the
    34  penal law.
    35  § 726.30 First offender adjudication; post-judgment motions and appeal.
    36    The provisions of this chapter, governing the making and determination
    37  of  post-judgment motions and the taking and determination of appeals in
    38  criminal cases, apply to post judgment motions and appeals with  respect
    39  to  first offender adjudications wherever such provisions can reasonably
    40  be so applied.
    41  § 726.35 First offender adjudication; effect thereof; records.
    42    1. A first offender adjudication is not a judgment of conviction for a
    43  crime or any other offense, and does not operate as  a  disqualification
    44  of  any person so adjudged to hold public office or public employment or
    45  to receive any license granted by public authority but shall be deemed a
    46  conviction only for the purposes of transfer of supervision and  custody
    47  pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-m of the executive law.
    48    2.  Except where specifically required or permitted by statute or upon
    49  specific authorization of the court, upon receipt of notification  of  a
    50  first offender adjudication:
    51    (a) every photograph of such offender and photographic plate or proof,
    52  and all palmprints and fingerprints taken or made of such first offender
    53  pursuant  to  the  provisions of this article in regard to the action or
    54  proceeding terminated, and all duplicates and copies thereof,  except  a
    55  digital  fingerprint image where authorized pursuant to paragraph (e) of
    56  this subdivision, shall forthwith be, at the discretion of the recipient

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     1  agency, either destroyed or returned to such first offender, or  to  the
     2  attorney  who  represented  the first offender at the time of the termi-
     3  nation of the action or proceeding, at the address given by such  person
     4  or attorney during the action or proceeding, by the division of criminal
     5  justice  services and by any police department or law enforcement agency
     6  having any such photograph, photographic plate or proof,  palmprints  or
     7  fingerprints in its possession or under its control;
     8    (b)  any  police  department  or law enforcement agency, including the
     9  division of criminal justice services, which  transmitted  or  otherwise
    10  forwarded to any agency of the United States or of any other state or of
    11  any  other jurisdiction outside the state of New York copies of any such
    12  photographs, photographic plates or proofs, palmprints and fingerprints,
    13  shall formally request in writing that all such copies be  destroyed  or
    14  returned to the police department or law enforcement agency which trans-
    15  mitted or forwarded them, and upon such return such department or agency
    16  shall,  at  its  discretion,  either  destroy or return them as provided
    17  under this subdivision;
    18    (c) all official records and papers relating to the arrest  or  prose-
    19  cution,  including  all  duplicates and copies thereof, on file with the
    20  division of criminal justice services, police  agency,  or  prosecutor's
    21  office shall be sealed and not made available to any person or public or
    22  private agency;
    23    (d) the records referred to in paragraph (c) of this subdivision shall
    24  be  made  available  to  the  accused  first  offender  or to such first
    25  offender's designated agent, and shall be made available to (i) a prose-
    26  cutor in any proceeding in which the accused  has  moved  for  an  order
    27  pursuant  to  section  170.56  or  210.46 of this chapter, or (ii) a law
    28  enforcement agency upon ex parte motion in any superior court, or in any
    29  district court, city court or the criminal court of the city of New York
    30  provided that such court sealed the record, if such agency  demonstrates
    31  to the satisfaction of the court that justice requires that such records
    32  be  made  available to it, or (iii) any state or local officer or agency
    33  with responsibility for the issuance of licenses to possess  guns,  when
    34  the  accused  has  made  application for such a license, or (iv) the New
    35  York state department of corrections and community supervision when  the
    36  accused  is  under parole supervision as a result of conditional release
    37  or parole release granted by the New York state board of parole and  the
    38  arrest  which  is the subject of the inquiry is one which occurred while
    39  the accused was under such supervision, or (v) the probation  department
    40  responsible  for supervision of the accused when the arrest which is the
    41  subject of the inquiry is one which occurred while the accused was under
    42  such supervision;
    43    (e) at no time shall such notification be used for any  purpose  other
    44  than those specified in this subdivision, provided, however, that infor-
    45  mation regarding an order of protection or temporary order of protection
    46  issued  pursuant  to  section 530.12 of this part or a warrant issued in
    47  connection therewith may be maintained on the statewide automated  order
    48  of  protection  and warrant registry established pursuant to section two
    49  hundred twenty-one-a of the executive law during the  period  that  such
    50  order  of  protection  or temporary order of protection is in full force
    51  and effect or during which such warrant may be executed. Such  confiden-
    52  tial information may be made available pursuant to law only for purposes
    53  of adjudicating or enforcing such order of protection or temporary order
    54  of protection; and
    55    (f)  where fingerprints subject to the provisions of this section have
    56  been received by the division of criminal justice services and have been

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     1  filed by the division as digital images, such images  may  be  retained,
     2  provided  that  a fingerprint card of the individual is on file with the
     3  division which was not sealed pursuant to this section or section 160.50
     4  of this chapter.
     5    §  10.  Subdivision  2  of section 60.00 of the penal law, as added by
     6  chapter 481 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
     7    2. The sole provision of this article that shall apply in the case  of
     8  an  offense committed by a juvenile offender [is] or a defendant adjudi-
     9  cated a youthful offender or young adult in section 60.10 of this  arti-
    10  cle and no other provisions of this article shall be deemed or construed
    11  to apply in any such case.
    12    §  11.  Subdivisions  1  and  3  of section 60.02 of the penal law, as
    13  amended by chapter 471 of the laws of 1980, and subdivision 3 as amended
    14  by section 1 of part Y of chapter 56 of the laws of 2008, are amended to
    15  read as follows:
    16    (1) If the sentence is to be imposed upon a youthful offender  finding
    17  which  has  been substituted for a conviction of an offense other than a
    18  felony, the court must impose a sentence authorized for the offense  for
    19  which the youthful offender finding was substituted[, except that if the
    20  youthful  offender  finding  was  entered  pursuant  to paragraph (b) of
    21  subdivision one of section 720.20 of the  criminal  procedure  law,  the
    22  court  must  not impose a definite or intermittent sentence of imprison-
    23  ment with a term of more than six months]; or
    24    (3) The provisions of section 60.35 of this article shall not apply to
    25  a sentence imposed upon  a  juvenile  offender  conviction,  a  youthful
    26  offender  finding,  or a young adult offender finding [and the amount of
    27  the mandatory surcharge and crime victim assistance fee which  shall  be
    28  levied  at  sentencing  shall  be  equal to the amount specified in such
    29  section for the offense of conviction for which  the  youthful  offender
    30  finding  was  substituted;  provided,  however  that the court shall not
    31  impose the sex offender registration fee, DNA databank  fee  or  supple-
    32  mental sex offender victim fee, as defined in subparagraphs (iv) and (v)
    33  of  paragraph  (a) and paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section 60.35
    34  of this article, for an offense in which the conviction was  substituted
    35  with a youthful offender finding].
    36    §  12.  Subdivision 4 of section 80.00 of the penal law, as amended by
    37  chapter 338 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
    38    4. Exception. The provisions of this section  shall  not  apply  to  a
    39  corporation, or eligible youth as defined in section 720.10 of the crim-
    40  inal procedure law.
    41    §  13.  Subdivision  6 of section 80.05 of the penal law is amended to
    42  read as follows:
    43    6. Exception. The provisions of this section  shall  not  apply  to  a
    44  corporation, or eligible youth as defined in section 720.10 of the crim-
    45  inal procedure law.
    46    §  14.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of November next
    47  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall  apply
    48  to any criminal case pending on such effective date.
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