Sex trafficking; accomplice · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 230.36 Sex trafficking; accomplice.
In a prosecution for sex trafficking, a person from whose prostitution activity another person is alleged to have advanced or attempted to advance or profited or attempted to profit shall not be deemed to be an accomplice.
In a sex-trafficking prosecution, a person from whose prostitution activity another person allegedly advanced or profited, or attempted to, 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.