Bill Text: NY S07200 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for the admission of a defendant's previous declarations or statements when the crime committed is a hate crime.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S07200 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07200-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7200

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- 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 the admission
          of a defendant's previous declarations or statements  when  the  crime
          committed is a hate crime

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

     1    Section 1. The criminal procedure law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 60.77 to read as follows:
     3  § 60.77 Rules  of  evidence;  previous declarations and statements; hate
     4            crimes.
     5    Evidence of a defendant's previous declarations or statements  may  be
     6  admitted  to  show the defendant intentionally committed the act or acts
     7  constituting a hate crime as set forth in article four  hundred  eighty-
     8  five  of  the  penal  law  in  whole or in substantial part because of a
     9  belief or perception regarding the race, color, national origin,  ances-
    10  try,  gender,  gender  identity or expression, religion, religious prac-
    11  tice, age, disability or sexual orientation of a person, subject to  the
    12  evidentiary rules governing criminal trials set forth in this title.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first on November next succeed-
    14  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.
                                                                   LBD14719-02-0