State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Virginia > Title-19-2 > Chapter-5 > 19-2-60§ 19.2-60. Motion for return of seized property and to suppress.
A person aggrieved by an allegedly unlawful search or seizure may move thecourt to return any seized property and to suppress it for use as evidence.The court shall receive evidence on any issue of fact necessary to thedecision of the motion. If the motion is granted by a court of record, anyseized property shall be restored as soon as practicable unless otherwisesubject to lawful detention, and such property shall not be admissible inevidence at any hearing or trial. If the motion is granted by a court not ofrecord, such property shall not be admissible in evidence at any hearing ortrial before that court, but the ruling shall have no effect on any hearingor trial in a court of record.
(1975, c. 495.)
