Labor trafficking; accomplice · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 135.36 Labor trafficking; accomplice.
In a prosecution for labor trafficking, a person who has been compelled or induced or recruited, enticed, harbored or transported to engage in labor shall not be deemed to be an accomplice.
In a labor-trafficking prosecution, a person compelled, induced, recruited, enticed, harbored, or transported to perform labor is not treated as an accomplice. ★
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.