Provides for furnishing of a copy of the transcript of the trial of a defendant convicted of a homicide offense, or of the proceedings which resulted in such conviction, to a family member of the victim at no cost to the victim or survivors; provides that the expense thereof shall be chargeable to the county, or in the counties within the city of New York, a city charge, as the case may be.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7852
IN SENATE
May 17, 2010
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- 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 delivery
of stenographic transcripts to family members of victims of homicides
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 380.75 to read as follows:
3 § 380.75 Stenographic transcript.
4 Upon formal request of a member of the family of the victim, made
5 within one hundred eighty days after the date of the conviction of a
6 defendant of a homicide offense defined in article one hundred twenty-
7 five of the penal law, the court shall notify the court stenographer,
8 who shall make available, pursuant to the rules of the chief administra-
9 tor of the courts for the delivery of transcripts for appeals, a certi-
10 fied copy, produced using available technology such as a photocopier, of
11 the transcript of the stenographic minutes of the trial which resulted
12 in such conviction or, if there was no trial, of the proceeding which
13 resulted in such conviction. The court stenographer shall deliver the
14 copy of such transcript to the family member or his or her attorney, and
15 file with the court clerk an affidavit of the fact and date of such
16 delivery. The expense of the copy of such transcript provided to a fami-
17 ly member shall be a county charge or, in the counties within the city
18 of New York, a city charge, as the case may be, payable to the court
19 stenographer out of the court fund upon certificate of the judge who
20 presided at such trial or proceedings.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05527-03-0
