§ 720.25 Youthful offender adjudication; certain exemptions.

Terms Used In N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law 720.25

  • Youth: means a person charged with a crime alleged to have been committed when he was at least sixteen years old and less than nineteen years old or a person charged with being a juvenile offender as defined in subdivision forty-two of section 1. See N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law 720.10

Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law:

1. where the court is required to find that a person is a youthful offender pursuant to section 170.80 of this chapter, the fact that such person has previously been convicted of a crime or adjudicated a youthful offender shall not prevent such person from being adjudicated a youthful offender as required by such section; and

2. a youthful offender adjudication pursuant to section 170.80 of this chapter shall not be considered in determining whether a person is an eligible youth, or in determining whether to find a person a youthful offender, in any subsequent youthful offender adjudication.