Code of Virginia
Title 19.2. Criminal Procedure
Title 19.2. Criminal Procedure
1/25/2021
Title 19.2. Criminal Procedure (2020 Updates)
- Chapter 1. General Provisions
- § 19.2-8
- Limitation of prosecutions
- § 19.2-10.4
- Subpoena duces tecum; attorney-issued subpoena duces tecum
- Chapter 1.2. Physical Evidence Recovery Kits
- § 19.2-11.13
- Physical Evidence Recovery Kit Tracking System
- Chapter 5. Search Warrants
- § 19.2-59.1
- Strip searches prohibited; exceptions; how strip searches conducted
- Chapter 6. Interception of Wire, Electronic or Oral Communications
- § 19.2-69
- Civil action for unlawful interception, disclosure, or use
- Chapter 7. Arrest
- § 19.2-83.2
- Jail officer to ascertain citizenship of inmate
- Chapter 9. Bail and Recognizances
- Article 1. Bail
- § 19.2-120
- Admission to bail
- Article 2. Recognizances
- § 19.2-149
- How surety on a bond in recognizance may surrender principal and be discharged from liability; deposit for surrender of principal
- Chapter 9.1. Protective Orders
- § 19.2-152.9
- Preliminary protective orders
- § 19.2-152.10
- Protective order
- Chapter 9.2. Substantial Risk Orders
- § 19.2-152.13
- Emergency substantial risk order
- § 19.2-152.14
- Substantial risk order
- § 19.2-152.15
- Return or disposal of firearms
- § 19.2-152.16
- False statement to law-enforcement officer, etc.; penalty
- § 19.2-152.17
- Immunity of law-enforcement officers, etc.; chapter not exclusive
- Chapter 10. Disability of Judge or Attorney for Commonwealth; Court-Appointed Counsel; Interpreters; Transcripts
- Article 3.1. Indigent Defense
- § 19.2-163.04
- Public defender offices
- Chapter 11. Proceedings on Question of Insanity
- § 19.2-169.1
- Raising question of competency to stand trial or plead; evaluation and determination of competency
- § 19.2-169.2
- Disposition when defendant found incompetent
- Chapter 11.1. Disposition of Persons Acquitted by Reason of Insanity
- § 19.2-182.5
- Review of continuation of confinement hearing; procedure and reports; disposition
- Chapter 12. Preliminary Hearing
- § 19.2-188.1
- Testimony regarding identification of controlled substances
- Chapter 13. Grand Juries
- Article 4. Multi-Jurisdiction Grand Juries
- § 19.2-215.1
- Functions of a multi-jurisdiction grand jury
- Chapter 15. Trial and Its Incidents
- Article 3. Arraignment; Pleas; Trial without Jury
- § 19.2-258.1
- Trial of traffic infractions; measure of proof; failure to appear
- Article 4. Trial by Jury
- § 19.2-262.01
- Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors
- Article 4.2. Discovery
- § 19.2-264.6
- (Contingent effective date) General provisions
- § 19.2-264.7
- (Contingent effective date) Initiation and timing of discovery
- § 19.2-264.8
- (Contingent effective date) Discovery by the accused
- § 19.2-264.9
- (Contingent effective date) Redaction and restricted dissemination material
- § 19.2-264.10
- (Contingent effective date) Discovery by the Commonwealth
- § 19.2-264.11
- (Contingent effective date) Admissibility of discovery
- § 19.2-264.12
- (Contingent effective date) Protection order
- § 19.2-264.13
- (Contingent effective date) Continuing duty to disclose
- § 19.2-264.14
- (Contingent effective date) Failure to provide discovery or otherwise comply
- Article 5. Miscellaneous Provisions
- § 19.2-265.4
- (Contingent effective date) Failure to provide discovery
- § 19.2-266.4
- Expert assistance for indigent defendants
- Chapter 16. Evidence and Witnesses
- Article 1. In General
- § 19.2-271.1
- Competency of spouses to testify
- § 19.2-271.2
- Testimony of spouses in criminal cases (Subsection (b) of Supreme Court Rule 2:504 derived from this section)
- § 19.2-271.5
- Protected information; newspersons engaged in journalism
- Chapter 17. Convictions; Effect Thereof
- Article 1. Proof and Verdicts
- § 19.2-289
- Conviction of petit larceny
- § 19.2-290
- Conviction of petit larceny though thing stolen worth $1,000 or more
- Chapter 18. Sentence; Judgment; Execution of Sentence
- Article 1. General Provisions
- § 19.2-295.2
- Postrelease supervision of felons sentenced for offenses committed on and after January 1, 1995, and on and after July 1, 2000
- § 19.2-295.2:1
- Postrelease incarceration of felons sentenced for certain offenses committed on or after July 1, 2006
- § 19.2-303.2
- Persons charged with first offense may be placed on probation
- § 19.2-303.4
- (Effective until March 1, 2021) Payment of costs when proceedings deferred and defendant placed on probation
- § 19.2-303.6
- Deferred disposition in a criminal case; persons with autism or intellectual disabilities
- § 19.2-305
- Requiring fines, costs, restitution for damages, support, or community services from probationer
- § 19.2-309.1
- Sentence of confinement to jail farms maintained by the Cities of Danville, Martinsville and Newport News
- Article 1.1. DNA Analysis and Data Bank
- § 19.2-310.2:1
- Saliva or tissue sample required for DNA analysis after arrest for a violent felony
- Chapter 19.1. Scientific Analysis of Newly Discovered or Untested Scientific Evidence
- § 19.2-327.1
- Motion by a convicted felon or person adjudicated delinquent for scientific analysis of newly discovered or previously untested scientific evidence; procedure
- Chapter 19.2. Issuance of Writ of Actual Innocence
- § 19.2-327.2
- Issuance of writ of actual innocence based on biological evidence
- § 19.2-327.2:1
- Petition for writ of actual innocence joined by Attorney General; release of prisoner; bond hearing
- § 19.2-327.3
- Contents and form of the petition based on previously unknown or untested human biological evidence of actual innocence
- § 19.2-327.5
- Relief under writ
- Chapter 19.3. Issuance of Writ of Actual Innocence Based on Nonbiological Evidence
- § 19.2-327.10
- Issuance of writ of actual innocence based on nonbiological evidence
- § 19.2-327.10:1
- Petition for writ of actual innocence joined by Attorney General; release of prisoner; bond hearing
- § 19.2-327.11
- Contents and form of the petition based on previously unknown or unavailable evidence of actual innocence
- § 19.2-327.13
- Relief under writ
- Chapter 20. Taxation and Allowance of Costs
- § 19.2-335
- (Effective until March 1, 2021) Judge of district court to certify to clerk of circuit court costs of proceedings in criminal cases before him
- § 19.2-336
- (Effective until March 1, 2021) Clerk to make up statement of whole cost, and issue execution therefor
- Chapter 21. Recovery of Fines and Penalties
- Article 4. Payment of Fines and Costs on Installment Basis, Etc
- § 19.2-354
- Authority of court to order payment of fine, costs, forfeitures, penalties or restitution in installments or upon other terms and conditions; community work in lieu of payment
- § 19.2-354.1
- Deferred or installment payment agreements
- Chapter 21.1. Compensating Victims of Crime
- § 19.2-368.4
- Persons eligible for awards
- Chapter 22.1. Enforcement of Forfeitures
- § 19.2-386.1
- Commencing an action of forfeiture
- § 19.2-386.10
- Forfeiture; default judgment; remission; trial
- Chapter 22.2. Miscellaneous Forfeiture Provisions
- § 19.2-386.16
- Forfeiture of motor vehicles used in commission of certain crimes
- § 19.2-386.29
- Forfeiture of certain weapons used in commission of criminal offense
- § 19.2-386.31
- Seizure and forfeiture of property used in connection with the exploitation and solicitation of children
- § 19.2-386.32
- Seizure and forfeiture of property used in connection with the abduction of children
- § 19.2-386.34
- Forfeiture of vehicle used in a felony violation of § 18.2-266
- § 19.2-386.35
- Seizure of property used in connection with certain offenses
- Chapter 23. Central Criminal Records Exchange
- § 19.2-387
- Exchange to operate as a division of Department of State Police; authority of Superintendent of State Police
- § 19.2-387.3
- Substantial Risk Order Registry; maintenance; access
- § 19.2-389
- (Effective until January 1, 2021) Dissemination of criminal history record information
- § 19.2-389
- (Effective January 1, 2021 and until July 1, 2021) Dissemination of criminal history record information
- § 19.2-389
- (Effective July 1, 2021) Dissemination of criminal history record information
- § 19.2-389.3
- Marijuana possession; limits on dissemination of criminal history record information; prohibited practices by employers, educational institutions, and state and local governments; penalty
- § 19.2-390
- Reports to be made by local law-enforcement officers, conservators of the peace, clerks of court, Secretary of the Commonwealth and Corrections officials to State Police; material submitted by other agencies
- § 19.2-391
- Records to be made available to Exchange by state officials and agencies; duplication of records
- § 19.2-392
- Fingerprints and photographs by police authorities
- § 19.2-392.02
- (Effective until July 1, 2021) National criminal background checks by businesses and organizations regarding employees or volunteers providing care to children or the elderly or disabled
- Chapter 23.1. Expungement of Criminal Records
- § 19.2-392.2
- Expungement of police and court records
- Chapter 23. Central Criminal Records Exchange
- § 19.2-392.02
- (Effective July 1, 2021) National criminal background checks by businesses and organizations regarding employees or volunteers providing care to children or the elderly or disabled