N.Y. Penal Law Section 125.10
Criminally negligent homicide

A person is guilty of criminally negligent homicide when, with criminal negligence, he causes the death of another person. Criminally negligent homicide is a class E felony.

Source: Section 125.10 — Criminally negligent homicide, https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/125.10 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Nov. 8, 2025).

125.00
Homicide defined 125.05
Homicide and related offenses 125.10
Criminally negligent homicide 125.11
Aggravated criminally negligent homicide 125.12
Vehicular manslaughter in the second degree 125.13
Vehicular manslaughter in the first degree 125.14
Aggravated vehicular homicide 125.15
Manslaughter in the second degree 125.20
Manslaughter in the first degree 125.21
Aggravated manslaughter in the second degree 125.22
Aggravated manslaughter in the first degree 125.25
Murder in the second degree 125.26
Aggravated murder 125.27
Murder in the first degree

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Original Source: Section 125.10 — Criminally negligent homicide, https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/125.10 (last accessed Nov. 8, 2025).

N.Y. Penal Law Section 125.10 Criminally negligent homicide

N.Y. Penal Law Section 125.10
Criminally negligent homicide