NY Defense Widgets

Free, fast lookup tools for New York criminal defense — built to answer the questions that come up mid-interview, mid-negotiation, and mid-plea, with the citations to back them up.

What's here

1. Statute → Immigration Consequences Lookup

Type in a NY Penal Law section (like 130.60) or an offense name (like sexual abuse) and see how a plea or conviction to that offense can affect a client's immigration status: aggravated felony, crime involving moral turpitude (CIMT), controlled substance, firearm, and domestic-violence grounds — with the federal statutes and BIA/Second Circuit cases behind each conclusion, and an honest flag on every rule that still needs verification.

Try: 130.60 · assault 2nd · burglary · drug felony

Why it matters:Padilla duties start at arraignment. A defendant who pleads to a "misdemeanor" can still be deportable — and the defense attorney who didn't flag it before the plea has a Sixth Amendment problem. This widget lets you check the immigration exposure of a specific charge in seconds, before your client signs anything.

2. Lesser Included Offense Finder

Enter a charge (like murder 2nd or 120.05) and see every potential lesser included offense — whether courts have said Yes or No to each one, which LIOs are implied, and the exact case authority for each answer. "For pleas" markings are preserved where the source table uses them.

Try: 125.25 · burglary 2nd · 155.30 · robbery

Why it matters: LIO analysis is how you give a jury (or a prosecutor) a place between all-or-nothing. Knowing which lesser offenses are legally available — with the cases to cite — is the difference between "take it or leave it" and a real negotiation, and it shapes your C jury charge requests before trial.

How to use these

  1. Search — type a statute number or offense name; matching charges and rules appear as you type. Partial numbers work (120.05 finds every subsection).
  2. Read the flags — every result carries a certainty status (active, needs verification, contested) and its source. The tools are honest about what's solid and what isn't.
  3. Verify before you rely — every entry links to the underlying authority. These widgets are a map, not the territory: pull the case, read the record, make the call.

Who built these and why they're free

These tools came out of building an intake and case-analysis pipeline for a New York criminal defense practice: the same reference tables a defense team uses every day, turned into lookups a defender (or their client, or a law student) can run in a browser. They're fully static — no accounts, no tracking, nothing you type leaves your device.

They draw on public work: the lesser-included offense data comes from the NYSDA Lesser Included Offenses table (April 2023), and the immigration ruleset is derived from published defense-bar reference materials. We cite everything, and we credit the organizations whose work made it possible.