N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law § 440.50: Notice to crime victims of case disposition

§ 440.50 Notice to crime victims of case disposition.

1. Upon the request of a victim of a crime, or in any event in all

cases in which the final disposition includes a conviction of a violent

felony offense as defined in section 70.02 of the penal law, a felony

defined in article one hundred twenty-five of such law, or a felony

defined in article one hundred thirty of such law, the district attorney

shall, within sixty days of the final disposition of the case, inform

the victim by letter of such final disposition. If such final

disposition results in the commitment of the defendant to the custody of

the department of corrections and community supervision for an

indeterminate sentence, the notice provided to the crime victim shall

also inform the victim of his or her right to submit a written,

audiotaped, or videotaped victim impact statement to the department of

corrections and community supervision or to meet personally with a

member of the state board of parole at a time and place separate from

the personal interview between a member or members of the board and the

incarcerated individual and make such a statement, subject to procedures

and limitations contained in rules of the board, both pursuant to

subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive

law. A copy of such letter shall be provided to the board of parole. The

right of the victim under this subdivision to submit a written victim

impact statement or to meet personally with a member of the state board

of parole applies to each personal interview between a member or members

of the board and the incarcerated individual.

2. As used in this section, "victim" means any person alleged or

found, upon the record, to have sustained physical or financial injury

to person or property as a direct result of the crime charged or a

person alleged or found to have sustained, upon the record, an offense

under article one hundred thirty of the penal law, or in the case of a

homicide or minor child, the victim's family.

3. As used in this section, "final disposition" means an ultimate

termination of the case at the trial level including, but not limited

to, dismissal, acquittal, or imposition of sentence by the court, or a

decision by the district attorney, for whatever reason, to not file the

case.