Bill Sponsors: NY S02079 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly

Bill Title: Establishes the actual innocence justice act of 2019; clarifies that convicted persons who can demonstrate a reasonable probability that they are innocent will have the right to challenge their convictions under the law, notwithstanding any other procedural or technical provisions of law that would have prevented them from doing so.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S02079 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Sponsors

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Senator Brian Benjamin [D]PrimarySponsored BillsSD-030FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart

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