Virginia House Bill 1919 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 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]

Joint motion for writ of actual innocence. Provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth of the jurisdiction wherein a person was convicted of a felony may join in a petition for a biological or nonbiological writ of actual innocence. When such petition is so joined, the petitioner may file a copy of the petition and attachments thereto with the circuit court that entered the felony conviction and move the court for a hearing to consider release of the person on bail pending a ruling by the appellate court on the writ.

Writ of actual innocence; joint motion for petitions.

Del. Charniele Herring [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-05	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2013-01-16	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2013-01-15	House	Assigned Courts sub: #1 Criminal
2013-01-09	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2013-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101581D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	327.10:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	327.2:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+HB1919
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1919+hil