19.2-265.1 - Exclusion of witnesses. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-265.1. Exclusion of witnesses.

In the trial of every criminal case, the court, whether a court of record ora court not of record, may upon its own motion and shall upon the motion ofeither the attorney for the Commonwealth or any defendant, require theexclusion of every witness to be called, including, but not limited to,police officers or other investigators; however, each defendant who is anindividual and one officer or agent of each defendant which is a corporationor association shall be exempt from the rule of this section as a matter ofright. Additionally, any victim as defined in § 19.2-11.01 who is to becalled as a witness shall be exempt from the rule of this section as a matterof law unless, in accordance with the provisions of § 19.2-265.01, hisexclusion is otherwise required.

(Code 1950, § 8-211.1; 1966, c. 268; 1975, c. 652; 1977, c. 624; 1990, c.572; 2004, c. 311.)