Virginia House Bill 2086 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-07 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Writ of actual innocence based on nonbiological evidence; untested evidence. Allows a writ of actual innocence based on nonbiological evidence to be granted if scientific testing of previously untested evidence, regardless of whether such evidence was available or known at the time of conviction, proves that no trier of fact would have found proof of guilt of the person petitioning for the writ, provided that the testing procedure was not available at the time of conviction. The bill also eliminates the provision that limits a petitioner to only one writ for any conviction.

Writ of actual innocence; basis on nonbiological evidence, untested evidence.

Del. Charniele Herring [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-07	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2017-02-01	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2017-01-16	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
2017-01-10	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102921D

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	327.13	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2086
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2086+hil