Aggravated assault on a judge · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 120.09-a Aggravated assault on a judge.
A person is guilty of aggravated assault on a judge when, with intent to cause serious physical injury and prevent a judge from performing official judicial duties, such person causes serious physical injury to such judge. For the purposes of this section, the term judge shall mean a judge of a court of record or a justice court.
Aggravated assault on a judge is a class B felony.
A person commits aggravated assault on a judge by intending both to cause serious physical injury and to prevent official judicial duties, and causing serious physical injury to a judge of a court of record or justice court. ★ It is a class B felony.
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.
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.