New York State Crime Victims Board v. T.J.M. Productions, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Rubin, J.
For the past two decades, the Legislature of this State has attempted to provide a source of funds to compensate crime victims for the damages they sustain at the hands of criminals. The effort to “take the profit out of crime” by seizing the instrumentalities employed in its commission has been hugely successful (see, 1 Kessler, Criminal and Civil Forfeiture, ch 1, § 1.01). However, the “Son of Sam” Law, the Legislature’s effort to prevent the criminal from reaping a windfall from the notoriety generated by the very crime he has committed (L 1977, ch 823, § 1, as…
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