§ 125.27 Murder in the first degree.\n A person is guilty of murder in the first degree when:\n 1. With intent to cause the death of another person, he causes the\ndeath of such person or of a third person; and\n (a) Either:\n (i) the intended victim was a police officer as defined in subdivision\n34 of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law who was at the time of\nthe killing engaged in the course of performing his official duties, and\nthe defendant knew or reasonably should have known that the intended\nvictim was a police officer; or\n (ii) the intended victim was a peace officer as defined in paragraph a\nof subdivision twenty-one, subdivision twenty-three, twenty-four or\nsixty-two (employees of the division for youth) of section 2.10 of the\ncriminal procedure law who was at the time of the killing engaged in the\ncourse of performing his official duties, and the defendant knew or\nreasonably should have known that the intended victim was such a\nuniformed court officer, parole officer, probation officer, or employee\nof the division for youth; or\n (ii-a) the intended victim was a firefighter, emergency medical\ntechnician, ambulance driver, paramedic, physician or registered nurse\ninvolved in a first response team, or any other individual who, in the\ncourse of official duties, performs emergency response activities and\nwas engaged in such activities at the time of killing and the defendant\nknew or reasonably should have known that the intended victim was such\nfirefighter, emergency medical technician, ambulance driver, paramedic,\nphysician or registered nurse; or\n (iii) the intended victim was an employee of a state correctional\ninstitution or was an employee of a local correctional facility as\ndefined in subdivision two of section forty of the correction law, who\nwas at the time of the killing engaged in the course of performing his\nofficial duties, and the defendant knew or reasonably should have known\nthat the intended victim was an employee of a state correctional\ninstitution or a local correctional facility; or\n (iv) at the time of the commission of the killing, the defendant was\nconfined in a state correctional institution or was otherwise in custody\nupon a sentence for the term of his natural life, or upon a sentence\ncommuted to one of natural life, or upon a sentence for an indeterminate\nterm the minimum of which was at least fifteen years and the maximum of\nwhich was natural life, or at the time of the commission of the killing,\nthe defendant had escaped from such confinement or custody while serving\nsuch a sentence and had not yet been returned to such confinement or\ncustody; or\n (v) the intended victim was a witness to a crime committed on a prior\noccasion and the death was caused for the purpose of preventing the\nintended victim's testimony in any criminal action or proceeding whether\nor not such action or proceeding had been commenced, or the intended\nvictim had previously testified in a criminal action or proceeding and\nthe killing was committed for the purpose of exacting retribution for\nsuch prior testimony, or the intended victim was an immediate family\nmember of a witness to a crime committed on a prior occasion and the\nkilling was committed for the purpose of preventing or influencing the\ntestimony of such witness, or the intended victim was an immediate\nfamily member of a witness who had previously testified in a criminal\naction or proceeding and the killing was committed for the purpose of\nexacting retribution upon such witness for such prior testimony. As used\nin this subparagraph "immediate family member" means a husband, wife,\nfather, mother, daughter, son, brother, sister, stepparent, grandparent,\nstepchild or grandchild; or\n (vi) the defendant committed the killing or procured commission of the\nkilling pursuant to an agreement with a person other than the intended\nvictim to commit the same for the receipt, or in expectation of the\nreceip
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