Bill Text: VA HB793 | 2010 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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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

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HOUSE BILL NO. 793 Offered January 13, 2010 Prefiled January 12, 2010 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 19.2-269.3, relating to inadmissibility of certain criminal confessions unless videotaped. ---------- Patron-- Morrissey ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

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.