VA HB954 | 2012 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-02-10 - House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Summary

Criminal law; redefinition of the triggerman rule. Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the second degree can be punished only as if guilty of first degree murder. This bill allows principals in the second degree and accessories before the fact to be charged as principals in the first degree in the cases of murder for hire, murder involving a continuing criminal enterprise, and terrorism. This bill allows, in all other cases of capital murder, a principal in the second degree to be tried as a principal in the first degree if he had the same intent to kill as the principal in the first degree. The bill allows an accessory before the fact to be tried as a principal in the first degree if he ordered or directed the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing.

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Title

Criminal law; redefinition of triggerman rule, penalty.

Sponsors


History

DateChamberAction
2012-02-10 House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice
2012-02-10 House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice
2012-02-06 House: Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB389-Gilbert) by voice vote
2012-01-16 House: Assigned Courts sub: #1 Criminal
2012-01-11 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2012-01-11 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12102280D

Same As/Similar To

HB389 (Similar To) 2012-02-22 - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N 1-A)

Subjects


Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
18218(n/a)See Bill Text

Virginia State Sources


Bill Comments

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