                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PETITION FOR WRIT OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE JOINED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL; RELEASE OF
PRISONER; BOND HEARING (§ 19.2-327.2:1)

The Attorney General may join in a petition for a writ of actual innocence made
pursuant to § 19.2-327.2. 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 Supreme Court on the writ under § 19.2-327.5.

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