Bill Text: NJ A265 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits plea bargain if sex offender who committed Megan's Law offense would not be required to register.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-16 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee [A265 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A265-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
216th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman DONNA M. SIMON
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits plea bargain if sex offender who committed Megan's Law offense would not be required to register.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning sex offenders and supplementing chapter 7 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. In any case where a person has been charged with or indicted for a sex offense, as defined in section 2 of P.L.1994, c.133 (C.2C:7-2), the prosecutor shall not offer or accept a plea agreement which permits that person to plead guilty to an offense for which the person would not be required to register pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1994, c.133 (C.2C:7-1 et seq.).
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill prohibits certain sex offenders from pleading guilty to an offense for which that offender would not be required to register under Megan's Law. Specifically, the bill prohibits a prosecutor from entering into a plea agreement with a defendant who has been charged with or indicted for a Megan's Law offense if that plea agreement would result in the person not being required to register as a sex offender.
