Penal Law § 115.15

Criminal facilitation; corroboration  ·  as in force on May 31, 2026

§ 115.15 Criminal facilitation; corroboration.

A person shall not be convicted of criminal facilitation upon the testimony of a person who has committed the felony charged to have been facilitated unless such testimony be corroborated by such other evidence as tends to connect the defendant with such facilitation.

Official sourcehttps://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/115.15

In plain English

A person cannot be convicted of criminal facilitation solely on the testimony of the person who committed the facilitated felony. ★ Other evidence must tend to connect the defendant to the facilitation.

Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.

In print

This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.