Hindering prosecution in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 205.65 Hindering prosecution in the first degree.
A person is guilty of hindering prosecution in the first degree when he renders criminal assistance to a person who has committed a class A felony, knowing or believing that such person has engaged in conduct constituting a class A felony.
Hindering prosecution in the first degree is a class D felony.
A person commits first-degree hindering prosecution by rendering criminal assistance to someone who committed a class A felony, while knowing or believing that the person engaged in conduct constituting a class A felony. ★ The offense is a class D 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.