Code of Virginia - Title 19.2 Criminal Procedure - Chapter 12 Preliminary Hearing

• 19.2-183 Examination of witnesses; assistance of counsel; evidentiary matters and remedies; power to adjour...
  A. The judge before whom any person is brought for an offense shall, as soon as may be practical, in the presence of such person, ...
• 19.2-183.1 Joint preliminary hearings
  Upon motion of the attorney for the Commonwealth, preliminary hearings for persons alleged to have participated in contemporaneous and related acts or occurrences or in ...
• 19.2-184 Witnesses may be separated
  While a witness is under such examination all other witnesses may by order of the judge be excluded from the place of examination and kept ...
• 19.2-185 Testimony may be reduced to writing and subscribed
  When the judge deems it proper the testimony of the witnesses may be reduced to writing, and, if required by him, shall be signed by ...
• 19.2-186 When accused to be discharged, tried, committed or bailed by judge
  The judge shall discharge the accused if he considers that there is not sufficient cause for charging him with the offense. If a judge considers ...
• 19.2-187 Admission into evidence of certain certificates of analysis
  In any hearing or trial of any criminal offense or in any proceeding brought pursuant to Chapter 22.1 (§ 19.2-386.1 et seq.) of this title, ...
• 19.2-187.01 Certificate of analysis as evidence of chain of custody of material described therein
  A report of analysis duly attested by the person performing such analysis or examination in any laboratory operated by (i) the Division of Consolidated Laboratory ...
• 19.2-187.02 Admissibility of written reports or records of blood alcohol tests conducted in the regular course ...
  A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the written reports or records of blood alcohol tests conducted upon persons receiving medical treatment in a hospital ...
• 19.2-187.1 Right to examine person performing analysis or involved in chain of custody
  The accused in any hearing or trial in which a certificate of analysis is admitted into evidence pursuant to § 19.2-187 or § 19.2-187.01 shall ...
• 19.2-187.2 Procedure for subpoena duces tecum of analysis evidence
  No subpoena duces tecum shall issue for the production of writings or documents used to reach the conclusion contained in a certificate of analysis prepared ...
• 19.2-188 Reports by Chief Medical Examiner received as evidence
  Reports of investigations made by the Chief Medical Examiner, his assistants or medical examiners, and the records and certified reports of autopsies made under the ...
• 19.2-188.1 Testimony regarding identification of controlled substances
  A. In any preliminary hearing on a violation of Article 1 (§ 18.2-247 et seq.) of Chapter 7 of Title 18.2, any law-enforcement officer shall ...
• 19.2-188.2 Certificate of surgeon as evidence
  A. In any criminal proceeding, the certificate of a duly qualified surgeon stating that he has removed organs or other body parts from a decedent ...
• 19.2-189 Commitment of accused for further examination
  If the accused be committed, it shall be by an order of the judge stating that he is committed for further examination on a day ...
• 19.2-190 To whom, and when, examination and recognizance to be certified
  Every examination and recognizance for a felony taken under this chapter, shall, by the person taking it, be certified to the clerk of the circuit ...

Last modified: April 3, 2009