A 322: Enables appellate review of the fairness and appropriateness of an imposed criminal sentence.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 322 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ, MEEKS, ROSENTHAL, JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to enabling appellate review of the fairness and appropriateness of an imposed sentence The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 470.15 of the 2 criminal procedure law is amended to read as follows: 3 (c) Upon a determination that a sentence imposed upon a valid 4 conviction is illegal or unduly harsh or severe, the court [may] shall, 5 notwithstanding an otherwise enforceable waiver of appeal, modify the 6 judgment by reversing it with respect to the sentence and by otherwise 7 affirming it. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 9 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00163-01-5