18.2-359 - Venue for criminal sexual assault or where any person transported for criminal sexual assault, attempted criminal sexual assault, or purposes of unlawful sexual intercourse, crimes against - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-359. Venue for criminal sexual assault or where any person transportedfor criminal sexual assault, attempted criminal sexual assault, or purposesof unlawful sexual intercourse, crimes against nature, and indecent libertieswith children.

A. Any person transporting or attempting to transport through or across thisCommonwealth, any person for the purposes of unlawful sexual intercourse orprostitution, or for the purpose of committing any crime specified in §18.2-361 or § 18.2-370, or for the purposes of committing or attempting tocommit criminal sexual assault under Article 7 (§ 18.2-61 et seq.) of Chapter4 of this title, may be presented, indicted, tried, and convicted in anycounty or city in which any part of such transportation occurred.

B. Venue for the trial of any person charged with committing or attempting tocommit criminal sexual assault under Article 7 (§ 18.2-61 et seq.) of Chapter4 of this title may be had in the county or city in which such crime isalleged to have occurred or in any county or city through which the victimwas transported by the defendant prior to the commission of such offense.

C. Venue for the trial of any person charged with committing or attempting tocommit criminal sexual assault under Article 7 (§ 18.2-61 et seq.) of Chapter4 of this title against a person under 18 years of age may be had in thecounty or city in which such crime is alleged to have occurred or, when thecounty or city where the offense is alleged to have occurred cannot bedetermined, then in the county or city where the person under 18 years of ageresided at the time of the offense.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-210; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1976, c. 54; 1978, c.610; 1981, c. 397; 2004, c. 869.)