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- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 58–1
- Ordered to third reading cal.1553
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to codes
- Print number 4391a
- Amend and recommit to codes
- Referred to codes
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Relates to first degree murder where the intended victim is a prosecutor or district attorney
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Joseph Morelle
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S4391A
Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to murder in the first degree where the intended victim was a prosecutor or district attorney
Purpose or general idea of bill
To establish the new offense of murder in the first degree when the intended victim was a prosecutor or district attorney.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1 of the bill creates a new first degree murder offense under the penal law for intentionally killing a prosecutor or district attorney.
Existing law
Currently, there is no first degree murder offense for the intentional murder of a prosecutor or district attorney.
Justification
The penal law contains the offense of murder in the first degree for the killing of a police officer, correctional facility employee, judge, firefighter, emergency medical technician, ambulance driver, paramedic, physician and registered nurse. However, despite numerous attacks and a number of recent murders, including that of a Texas DA as recently as February of this year, the intentional murder of a prosecutor or DA is not murder in the first degree in New York State.
Many of the murdered prosecutors, were murdered targeted by criminals they helped put in jail or were attempting to put in jail. While the murder of any individual is reprehensible, it is especially egregious when the victim is someone who is killed doing their job to protect the public.
Prior legislative history
New Bill
Fiscal implications
None to the State.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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