New York legal term
Information in New York Criminal Law
Current through 2026 New York legislative session
In New York criminal law, “Information” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the New York criminal code.
What does “Information” mean in New York criminal law?
"Information" means a verified written accusation by a person, more fully defined and described in article one hundred, filed with a local criminal court, which charges one or more defendants with the commission of one or more offenses, none of which is a felony, and which may serve both to commence a criminal action and as a basis for prosecution thereof. * 5. (N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law § 1.20)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Aggravated identity theft
- Coercion in the third degree
- Divulging an eavesdropping warrant
- Failing to report criminal communications
- False personation
- Falsely reporting an incident in the first degree
- Fraud in insolvency
- Health care fraud in the fifth degree
- Identity theft in the first degree
- Identity theft in the second degree
- Identity theft in the third degree
- Issuing a false certificate
Related terms in the same statutes
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