2025-2026 General Assembly

A05800

Prohibits persons convicted of murder or sentenced to life without parole or where the defendant acting either alone or with one or more other persons, commits or attempts to commit robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson, rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse, escape in the first degree, or escape in the second degree, and, in the course of and in furtherance of such crime or of immediate flight therefrom, such defendant, or another participant, if there be any, intentionally causes the death of: a police officer; a peace officer; a firefighter; emergency medical technician, ambulance driver, paramedic, physician or registered nurse involved in a first response team, or any other individual who, in the course of official duties, performs emergency response; or an employee of a state correctional institution or was an employee of a local correctional facility, when such person was engaged in the course of performing their official duties, from being eligible for commutation of sentence.

Prohibits commutation of sentence for those convicted of certain serious crimes resulting in the death of emergency responders or correctional.

New York Assembly Bill A05800 prohibits commutation of sentence for individuals convicted of murder or sentenced to life without parole, or those who commit or attempt to commit specific serious crimes, if their actions result in the death of emergency responders or correctional employees. The bill specifically excludes those convicted of murder in the second degree or aggravated murder, or those who commit certain felonies, from being eligible for commutation of sentence.

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A05800

Prohibits commutation of sentence for those convicted of certain serious crimes resulting in the death of emergency responders or correctional.

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