Virginia House Bill 1492 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 2 2013 - 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]

Vacation of criminal conviction for fraud upon the court. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of the Code or any rule of court to the contrary, upon hearing of a motion by a person convicted of a felony or adjudicated delinquent of a felony offense in the proper court of the jurisdiction where the person was convicted, following notice to the Commonwealth, a court may at any time after the person's conviction or adjudication vacate the judgment of the criminal conviction or adjudication of the person when the court finds that the conviction or adjudication was obtained by the commission of a material fraud upon the court or perjured testimony.

Fraud; court may vacate judgment of criminal conviction.

Del. Jeion Ward [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
2013-01-02	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2013-01-02	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13102873D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	12	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+HB1492
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1492+hil