CODE OF VIRGINIA

REOPENING CASE AFTER CONVICTION (§ 16.1-133.1)

Within sixty days from the date of conviction of any person in a general
district court or juvenile and domestic relations district court for an offense
not felonious, the case may be reopened upon the application of such person and
for good cause shown. Such application shall be heard by the judge who presided
at the trial in which the conviction was had, but if he be not in office, or be
absent from the county or city or is otherwise unavailable to hear the
application, it may be heard by his successor or by any other judge or
substitute judge of such court. If the case is reopened after the case documents
have been filed with the circuit court, the clerk of the circuit court shall
return the case documents to the district court in which the case was originally
tried.

HISTORY: 1973, c. 440; 1975, c. 298; 1983, c. 21.