West Virginia
West Virginia Code — Chapter 62, Criminal Procedure
328 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 62-1-1 — Complaint
- § 62-1-10 — Concurrent powers
- § 62-1-11 — Repeal of inconsistent laws
- § 62-1-12 — Severability
- § 62-1-2 — Warrant -- Issuance
- § 62-1-3 — Same -- Contents
- § 62-1-4 — Same -- Execution; arrest by officer without warrant in possession; duplicate warrants
- § 62-1-5 — Same -- Delivery of prisoner before magistrate; complaint for person arrested without warrant; return
- § 62-1-6 — Informing defendant of nature of complaint and his rights; opportunity to confer with counsel and arrange bail
- § 62-1-7 — Offense arising in other county
- § 62-1-8 — Preliminary examination
- § 62-1-9 — Continuance
- § 62-10-1 — Security to keep the peace
- § 62-10-2 — Intended offense -- Complaint; warrant
- § 62-10-3 — Hearing, judgment, appeal process for security to keep the peace
- § 62-10-4 — Same -- Proceedings on appeal; discharge from commitment by circuit court
- § 62-10-5 — Recognizance in carrying weapons
- § 62-10-6 — Offenses in presence of constable
- § 62-10-7 — Offenses in presence of justice
- § 62-10-8 — Special peace officers at fairs
- § 62-10-9 — Power and authority of sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and correctional officers to make arrests
- § 62-11-1 — Arrests within state by nonresident peace officer
- § 62-11-2 — Procedure upon arrest
- § 62-11-3 — Construction of §62-11-1
- § 62-11-4 — "State" includes District of Columbia
- § 62-11-5 — "Fresh pursuit" defined
- § 62-11-6 — Secretary of state to certify article
- § 62-11-7 — How article cited
- § 62-11A-1 — Release for work and other purposes by courts of record with criminal jurisdiction
- § 62-11A-2 — Employment by county
- § 62-11A-3 — Personnel status; limitation on liability of public officials and county and community service work agencies
- § 62-11A-4 — Violations; penalties
- § 62-11B-1 — Short title
- § 62-11B-10 — Information to be provided law-enforcement agencies
- § 62-11B-11 — Discretion of the court; provisions of article not exclusive
- § 62-11B-12 — Supervision of home incarceration by circuit court
- § 62-11B-13 — Home incarceration for municipal court offenders
- § 62-11B-2 — Applicability
- § 62-11B-3 — Definitions
- § 62-11B-4 — Home incarceration; period of home incarceration; applicability
- § 62-11B-5 — Requirements for order for home incarceration
- § 62-11B-6 — Circumstances under which home incarceration may not be ordered; exceptions
- § 62-11B-7 — Home incarceration fees; special fund
- § 62-11B-8 — Offender responsible for certain expenses
- § 62-11B-9 — Violation of order of home incarceration procedures; penalties
- § 62-11C-1 — Legislative intent
- § 62-11C-10 — Standardized risk and needs assessment; annual reviews; day report services
- § 62-11C-2 — Community Corrections Subcommittee
- § 62-11C-3 — Duties of the subcommittee
- § 62-11C-4 — Special revenue account
- § 62-11C-5 — Establishment of programs
- § 62-11C-6 — Community criminal justice boards
- § 62-11C-7 — Supervision or participation fee
- § 62-11C-8 — Local community criminal justice accounts
- § 62-11C-9 — Use of community corrections programs for those not under court supervision
- § 62-11D-1 — Definitions
- § 62-11D-2 — Polygraph examinations as a condition of supervision for certain sex offenders released on probation, parole or on supervised release
- § 62-11D-3 — Electronic monitoring of certain sex offenders under supervision; tampering with devices; offenses and penalties
- § 62-11E-1 — § 62-11E-1
- § 62-11E-2 — § 62-11E-2
- § 62-11E-3 — § 62-11E-3
- § 62-11F-1 — Applicability
- § 62-11F-2 — Establishment of pretrial release programs
- § 62-11F-3 — Pretrial release program guidelines
- § 62-11F-4 — Pretrial release assessment
- § 62-11F-5 — Role of pretrial release programs
- § 62-12-1 — Courts having authority to place offenders on probation
- § 62-12-10 — Violation of probation
- § 62-12-11 — Probation period
- § 62-12-12 — Parole Board generally
- § 62-12-13 — Powers and duties of board; eligibility for parole; procedure for granting parole
- § 62-12-16 — § 62-12-16
- § 62-12-17 — Conditions of release on probation and parole
- § 62-12-18 — Period of parole; discharge
- § 62-12-19 — Violation of parole
- § 62-12-2 — Eligibility for probation
- § 62-12-20 — To whom article applies
- § 62-12-21 — Repeal of inconsistent laws;"director" construed to mean "board."
- § 62-12-22 — Appointment of counsel for parole violators; authority to appoint; payment of counsel
- § 62-12-23 — Notification of parole hearing; victim’s right to be heard; notification of release on parole
- § 62-12-24 — Request to continue for good cause and timely notice required
- § 62-12-26 — Extended supervision for certain sex offenders; sentencing; conditions; supervision provisions; supervision fee
- § 62-12-27 — Mandatory prerelease risk assessment of certain sex offenders
- § 62-12-28 — Authorizing Supreme Court to develop pilot pretrial release programs
- § 62-12-29 — Shared information for community supervision
- § 62-12-3 — Suspension of sentence and release on probation
- § 62-12-4 — Probation of offenders convicted in courts other than courts of record
- § 62-12-5 — Probation officers and assistants
- § 62-12-6 — Powers and duties of probation officers
- § 62-12-7 — Pretrial and preliminary investigation; report on prospective probationers
- § 62-12-8 — Record of order as to release on probation
- § 62-12-9 — Conditions of release on probation
- § 62-13-1 — § 62-13-1
- § 62-13-2 — Supervision of probationers and parolees; final determinations remaining with board of probation and parole
- § 62-13-6 — § 62-13-6
- § 62-13-7 — Repeal of inconsistent laws; transfer of certain functions of board of probation and parole to department of corrections
- § 62-14-1 — Enactment of compact
- § 62-14-2 — "Appropriate court" defined
- § 62-14-3 — Enforcement of agreement
- § 62-14-4 — Application of habitual criminal law not required
- § 62-14-5 — Escape of prisoner while in temporary custody
- § 62-14-6 — Delivering custody of prisoner
- § 62-14-7 — Central administrator and information agent
- § 62-14A-1 — Extradition of fugitives from foreign nations
- § 62-14A-2 — Extradition of persons charged with crime in another state or imprisoned or awaiting trial in another state
- § 62-14A-3 — Governor"s warrant of arrest
- § 62-14A-4 — Hearing after arrest; application for writ of habeas corpus; arrest and confinement of fugitives from another state; bail; persons involved in
- § 62-14A-5 — Return of fugitive from this state
- § 62-14A-6 — Immunity from service of civil process; waiver of extradition proceedings; nonwaiver of rights of state; trial on other charges after return
- § 62-14A-7 — How costs paid; complainant responsible for
- § 62-15-1 — Short title
- § 62-15-10 — Program integrity and offender accountability
- § 62-15-11 — Funding
- § 62-15-12 — Immunity from liability
- § 62-15-13 — Statutory construction
- § 62-15-2 — Definitions
- § 62-15-3 — Policy and goals
- § 62-15-4 — Court authorization and structure
- § 62-15-5 — Drug court teams
- § 62-15-6 — Eligibility
- § 62-15-7 — Treatment and support services
- § 62-15-8 — Drug testing
- § 62-15-9 — Governance
- § 62-15B-1 — Oversight and implementation of family drug treatment courts
- § 62-15B-2 — Establish eligibility and policies procedures
- § 62-16-1 — Short title
- § 62-16-2 — Legislative findings
- § 62-16-3 — Definitions
- § 62-16-4 — Court authorization; funding; immunity from liability
- § 62-16-5 — Eligibility; written agreement
- § 62-16-6 — Procedure; mental health and substance abuse treatment; violation; termination
- § 62-16-7 — Program integrity and offender accountability
- § 62-1A-1 — Search warrant -- Who may issue
- § 62-1A-10 — Motor vehicle searches
- § 62-1A-11 — Rules for certain evidence of consent to vehicle search
- § 62-1A-12 — Prohibitions on surveillance cameras on private property
- § 62-1A-2 — Same — Grounds for issuance; property defined
- § 62-1A-3 — Same -- Issuance and contents
- § 62-1A-4 — Same -- Execution and return with inventory
- § 62-1A-5 — Breaking and entering premises
- § 62-1A-6 — Motion for return of property and to suppress evidence
- § 62-1A-7 — Disposition of seized property
- § 62-1A-8 — Purpose of article; construction of other provisions dealing with search warrants; repeal of inconsistent laws
- § 62-1A-9 — Severability
- § 62-1B-1 — Bill of particulars
- § 62-1B-2 — Defendant's statements; reports of examinations and tests; defendant's books, papers and tangible objects
- § 62-1B-3 — Time of motion
- § 62-1B-4 — Severability
- § 62-1C-1 — Right to bail; exceptions; review
- § 62-1C-10 — Same -- Bail in excess of jurisdictional limit of justice or of particular court
- § 62-1C-11 — Same -- Remission
- § 62-1C-12 — Same -- Exoneration; return of deposit
- § 62-1C-13 — Same -- Defects in form of bail
- § 62-1C-14 — Bailpiece; issuance to surety; taking accused into custody
- § 62-1C-15 — Bail for witness
- § 62-1C-16 — Guaranteed arrest bond certificate
- § 62-1C-17 — Offenses against municipalities
- § 62-1C-18 — Repeal of inconsistent laws
- § 62-1C-19 — Severability
- § 62-1C-2 — Bail defined; form; receipts
- § 62-1C-3 — Fixing of amount; bail may cover two or more charges
- § 62-1C-4 — Recognizance; signing; requirements for signers or surety company; release upon own recognizance; indigent persons
- § 62-1C-5 — Recognizance and deposits subject to order of court or magistrate
- § 62-1C-6 — Continuing bail
- § 62-1C-7 — Forfeiture of bail; basis therefor
- § 62-1C-8 — Same -- Setting aside
- § 62-1C-9 — Same -- Enforcement
- § 62-1D-1 — Short title
- § 62-1D-10 — Pen registers and trap and trace devices
- § 62-1D-11 — Ex parte order authorizing interception
- § 62-1D-12 — Civil liability; defense to civil or criminal action
- § 62-1D-13 — Registration of intercepting devices; serial number
- § 62-1D-14 — Breaking and entering, etc., to place or remove equipment
- § 62-1D-15 — Training and certification of law-enforcement officers employed in the interception of wire, oral or electronic communications which require a
- § 62-1D-16 — Severability of provisions
- § 62-1D-2 — Definitions
- § 62-1D-3 — Interception of communications generally
- § 62-1D-4 — Manufacture, possession or sale of intercepting device
- § 62-1D-5 — Forfeiture of device
- § 62-1D-6 — Admissibility of evidence
- § 62-1D-7 — Designated judges
- § 62-1D-8 — County prosecuting attorney or duly appointed special prosecutor may apply for order authorizing interception
- § 62-1D-9 — Lawful disclosure or use of contents of communication
- § 62-1E-1 — Definitions
- § 62-1E-2 — Eyewitness identification procedures
- § 62-1E-3 — Training of law-enforcement officers
- § 62-1F-1 — Definitions
- § 62-1F-2 — Electronic interception of conduct or oral communications in the home authorized
- § 62-1F-3 — Application for an order authorizing interception
- § 62-1F-4 — Order authorizing interception
- § 62-1F-5 — Recording of intercepted communications
- § 62-1F-6 — Sealing of applications, orders and supporting papers
- § 62-1F-7 — Investigative disclosure or use of contents of wire, electronic or oral communications or derivative evidence
- § 62-1F-8 — Interception of communications relating to other offenses
- § 62-1F-9 — Retroactive authorization
- § 62-1G-1 — Declaration of necessity
- § 62-1G-2 — Subpoenas for criminal investigations relating to certain offenses against minors for records concerning an electronic communications system or
- § 62-2-1 — Prosecutions to be by presentment or indictment
- § 62-2-10 — Defects not invalidating indictment
- § 62-2-11 — Defects cured by verdict