Virginia House Bill 724 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2014 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2014-01-27 - Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Writ of actual innocence based on biological evidence; petitioners pro se. Provides that the Supreme Court shall not accept a petition for a writ of actual innocence based on biological evidence from a petitioner pro se unless such petition is accompanied by a certificate that a copy of the petition and all attachments has been sent to the attorney for the Commonwealth for the jurisdiction where the conviction or adjudication of delinquency occurred and to the Attorney General. This duplicates the practice for a pro se petition for a writ of actual innocence based on nonbiological evidence filed with the Court of Appeals. This bill is a recommendation of the Judicial Council.

Writ of actual innocence; biological evidence, petitioners pro se.

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-27	House	Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote
2014-01-10	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2014-01-07	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2014-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14101190D

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

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB724
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB724+hil