Bill Text: VA HB793 | 2010 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Criminal confessions; inadmissible unless videotaped.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-16 - House: Left in Courts of Justice [HB793 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2010-HB793-Prefiled.html
10103980D Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 19.2-269.3 as follows: §19.2-269.3. Certain confessions inadmissible if not videotaped. No confession of a criminal defendant to the commission of any of the following criminal offenses shall be admissible in a court of law unless the confession is recorded on videotape and is otherwise admissible: (i) forcible rape of an adult in violation of § 18.2-61; (ii) forcible sodomy of an adult in violation of § 18.2-67.1; (iii) forcible object sexual penetration of an adult in violation of §18.2-67.2; (iv) robbery in violation of §18.2-58 or carjacking in violation of §18.2-58.1; or (v) felony kidnapping or abduction in violation of Article 3 (§18.2-47 et seq.) of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2. |