                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PETITION FOR WRIT OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE JOINED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL; RELEASE OF
PRISONER; BOND HEARING (§ 19.2-327.10:1)

The Attorney General may join in a petition for a writ of actual innocence made
pursuant to § 19.2-327.10 after providing written notice of such intent to the
local attorney for the Commonwealth in the jurisdiction of conviction or
adjudication of delinquency. When such petition is so joined, the petitioner may
file a copy of the petition and attachments thereto and the Attorney
General&#8217;s answer with the circuit court that entered the felony conviction
or adjudication of delinquency and move the court for a hearing to consider
release of the person on bail pursuant to Chapter 9 (§ 19.2-119 et seq.). Upon
hearing and for good cause shown, the court may order the person released from
custody subject to the terms and conditions of bail so established, pending a
ruling by the Court of Appeals on the writ under § 19.2-327.13.

HISTORY: 2015, c. 66; 2020, cc. 993, 994; 2023, c. 719.