File Code: Criminal Law - Procedure
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 1231/04 - JUD
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate O'Donnell
- Entitled:
-
Sentencing - Death Penalty - Murder of Individual Under Protective
Order
Adding to the list of aggravating circumstances for considering
imposition of a death sentence for the crime of murder in the first
degree; providing that it is an aggravating circumstance if the
victim, whom the defendant murdered, was a person eligible for relief
under an existing temporary ex parte order or a protective order; and
providing that under specified circumstances, specified provisions of
law can be applied to a defendant who is not a principal in the first
degree.
House Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Judiciary
- Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/7
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES; etc.
- DEATH PENALTY
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE -see also- CHILD ABUSE
- MURDER
- PROTECTION ORDERS
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Criminal Law
- (
2-202 ,
2-303
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments:
None offered