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2020 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - Specific Offenses
Title G - Anticipatory Offenses
Article 110 - Attempt
110.10 - Attempt to Commit a Crime; No Defense.
Universal Citation: NY Penal L § 110.10 (2020)
§ 110.10 Attempt to commit a crime; no defense.If the conduct in which a person engages otherwise constitutes an attempt to commit a crime pursuant to section 110.00, it is no defense to a prosecution for such attempt that the crime charged to have been attempted was, under the attendant circumstances, factually or legally impossible of commission, if such crime could have been committed had the attendant circumstances been as such person believed them to be.
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