Virginia House Bill 1355 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on November 30 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-05 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Petitions for writs of actual innocence. Provides that petitions for writs of actual innocence in the case of either biological or nonbiological evidence may be brought for any felony and upon any plea. The bill also provides that, for both writs, the petitioner shall allege that the new evidence, had it been available at trial, would have created in a rational trier of fact reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the petitioner, as opposed to the current required allegation that the evidence "will prove that no rational trier of fact could have found proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt." For the writ based on nonbiological evidence, the bill removes the limit that only one writ per conviction may be filed.

Writs of actual innocence; petitions.

Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-05	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2013-01-16	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely by voice vote
2013-01-15	House	Assigned Courts sub: #1 Criminal
2012-11-30	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2012-11-30	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101392D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	327.10	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	327.11	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	327.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	327.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+HB1355
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1355+hil