HB 996

Abstract

Parole; exception to limitation on the applicationof parole statutes. Provides that an incarcerated person is eligiblefor parole if (i) such person was sentenced by a jury prior to thedate of the Supreme Court of Virginia decision in Fishback v.Commonwealth, 260 Va. 104 (June 9, 2000), in which the Courtheld that a jury should be instructed on the fact that parole hasbeen abolished, for a noncapital felony committed on or after theabolition of parole went into effect (on January 1, 1995) and (ii)the jury was not instructed on the abolition of parole in the Commonwealth.