Legislation · Virginia · 2025
SB 1405: Evaluation and determination of competency; raising question of competency to stand trial or plead.
Summary
Raising question of competency to stand trial or plead; evaluation and determination of competency; second evaluation. Provides that if the attorney for an adult or juvenile charged with a criminal offense asks for a hearing to prove that such adult or juvenile is incompetent to stand trial, the attorney for the Commonwealth may seek his own competency evaluation for such adult or juvenile to present at such hearing.
Latest recorded action
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
Jan 22, 2025
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