CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2004)
Bills Indexed by Subject
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

: Adds new provisions to allow correction of arrest records when a person's identity has been falsely used.

: Requires certain sexual offenders ordered to participate in treatment to successfully complete that treatment and to follow all directives of the treatment program provider.

: Repeals the Board of Probation and Parole's authority to convert consecutive sentences to concurrent and clarifies that a convicted person is sentenced according to the law at the time of sentencing.

: Eliminates the death penalty.

: Allows a court to partially seal records for a first offense traffic violation.

: Allows certain persons to file a civil suit for damages for wrongful imprisonment.

: Revises the crime of identity theft, creates a new crime of trafficking in stolen identities, and revises the crime of false impersonation.

: Adds Cass County to the list of counties which assess a surcharge of $10 in all criminal cases.

: Allows a 36-hour hold for persons arrested without a warrant.

: Allows law enforcement officers to make a vehicle stop for a seat belt violation as long as the violation is clearly visible before the stop.

: Revises various statutes relating to crime.

: Extends the statute of limitations to five years for arson in the first and second degree and knowingly burning or exploding property.

: Clarifies the duties of certain county coroners and medical examiners.

: Allows the court to impound the vehicle or vehicles owned by a person convicted of driving while intoxicated or with excessive blood alcohol content.

: Adds pornography and obscenity offenses to the list of offenses for which a person must register as a sexual offender.

: Changes failing to register as a sex offender from a class A misdemeanor to a class D felony for the first offense and a class D felony to a class C felony for the second or subsequent offense.

: Makes it a crime for a sexual offender to establish residency within 1,000 feet of a public or private school or child care facility.

: Revises the seat belt law to allow peace officers to stop, inspect, or detain a person solely to determine compliance with the law, but prohibits use of noncompliance as a probable cause for searches.

: Revises the crime of kidnapping by including kidnapping of a child under 14 years of age.

: Increases the time of detention for a warrantless arrest for any crime from 20 hours to 24 hours.

: Revises the procedures required in law enfocement investigations and establishes the Laboratory Oversight Committee.

: Revises subsection 8 of Section 558.016, RSMo, relating to parole, by providing that the subsection does not apply to convictions occuring before June 27, 2003.

: Eliminates the death penalty.

: Creates a commission to study the death penalty and imposes a temporary moratorium on executions.

: Modifies judge disqualification in witness immunity applications.

: Revises provisions for sealing and closing of court records.

: Sets our requirements for obtaining a warrant by telephone.

: Authorizes custodial interrogations of persons suspected of committing felonies must be recorded.

: Limits Judicial Discretion where jury is unable to unanimously agree on the death penalty.

: Makes arson motivated by hate crimes a class A felony.

: Modifies and creates new provisions about identity theft.

: Creates a cause of action for those adjudicated innocent following DNA testing.

: Makes various changes to the criminal justice system.

: Establishes a system of environmental audits to reduce state and local regulation.

: Modifies and creates new provisions about identity.

: Modifies laws relating to DNA profiling and testing.

: Requires the DNA testing of all felons entering the Department of Corrections and other felons leaving a county jail.

: Modifies provisions of court procedures.

: Limits bifurcated trials to class A and B felonies.

: Requires certain nonviolent offenders to participate in community based substance abuse treatment programs.

: Revises the sexual offender registration law and the statute of limitations where the victim is eighteen or under.

: Redefined the crime of possession of child pornography.

: Extends the statute of limitations for sexual offenses involving a person eighteen years old or younger.

: Extends the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse cases.

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Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:09 am