A 7458: Creates the crime of related use of a lethal or explosive device; provides for additional 10 years imprisonment for certain crimes where a lethal or explosive device is used; permits exemption from such additional sentence when the defendant provides court with the source of such lethal or explosive device.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7458 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 28, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the related use of a lethal or explosive device The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 265.18 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 265.18 Related use of lethal or explosive device. 4 1. A person is guilty of related use of a lethal or explosive device 5 when such person commits any offense while in possession of a lethal or 6 explosive device. 7 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any 8 person convicted of related use of a lethal or explosive device shall, 9 in addition to the punishment provided for the related or underlying 10 offense, be sentenced to a determinate term of imprisonment for ten 11 years, and the term of imprisonment imposed pursuant to this section 12 shall not run concurrently with any other term of imprisonment including 13 that imposed for the related or underlying crime. 14 3. Any such non-concurrent term required to be imposed pursuant to 15 this section shall, however, not be imposed if: 16 (a) the defendant, within sixty days of the date of arraignment on the 17 indictment or superior court information, which sixty day period may be 18 extended in the discretion of the district attorney, shall truthfully to 19 the satisfaction of the court provide the district attorney with all the 20 information the defendant has concerning the source or sources of the 21 lethal or explosive device; and 22 (b) the use of such lethal or explosive device has not resulted in 23 death or serious bodily injury to another person who was not a partic- 24 ipant in the offense. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05567-01-5 
 A. 7458 2 1 4. So long as the statements made by the defendant to the district 2 attorney relating to the sources of the lethal or explosive device are 3 truthful, then (a) no statement so made shall be used as evidence 4 against the defendant in any criminal proceedings except that the 5 district attorney may use such statements for the purpose of cross-exa- 6 mination, impeachment and rebuttal should the defendant ever offer 7 contrary evidence, and (b) the district attorney may use as evidence 8 against the defendant any independent evidence which may be derived 9 through an investigation into the information so proffered by the 10 defendant. At any hearing on the issue of whether the defendant's state- 11 ments are truthful, the people shall bear the burden of showing that the 12 statements are not truthful by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. 13 5. The term: (a) "Lethal device" shall mean a machine gun, a pistol or 14 revolver, either a shotgun, rifle or assault weapon of any length or any 15 object made therefrom by alteration, modification or otherwise, an elec- 16 tronic dart gun, and an electronic stun gun. 17 (b) "Explosive device" shall mean any explosive, incendiary or poison 18 gas, bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four 19 ounces, missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than 20 one-quarter ounce, mine or any device similar to any of the devices 21 described in this subdivision. 22 (c) "Explosive" shall mean any chemical compound mixture or device, 23 the primary purpose of which is to function by explosion. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 25 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.