(a) A copy of this subchapter shall be provided to a person by a court:
(1) exonerating a person pursuant to subchapter 1 of this chapter through vacating or
reversing the person’s conviction, dismissing the information or indictment, entering
judgment on an acquittal after a second or subsequent trial; or
(2) receiving notice of a pardon.
(b) A person receiving a copy of this subchapter pursuant to subsection (a) of this section
shall be required to acknowledge its receipt in writing on a form established by the
Court Administrator. The acknowledgement shall be entered on the docket by the court
and shall be admissible in an action filed under this subchapter. (Added 2007, No. 60, § 1.)
Earl Scott v. State of Vermont, 2021 VT 39 (Vt. 2021). “First, Scott looks to 13 V.S.A. § 5577, which provides that a copy of subchapter 2 of the VIPA—dealing with compensation for wrongful convictions—shall be provided to a person by a court “exonerating [that] person pursuant to subchapter 1 of this chapter through vacating or…”
reynolds v. state (Vt. Super. Ct. 2024). “13 V.S.A. § 5577(a)(1) (emphasis added). It would make little sense for the Legislature to restrict the limitations period for and notifications required by the Act solely to exonerations under subchapter 1 unless such exonerations were the gateway to the Act.”
— Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 13, § 5577(a)(1) — 1 case
reynolds v. state (Vt. Super. Ct. 2024). “13 V.S.A. § 5577(a)(1) (emphasis added). It would make little sense for the Legislature to restrict the limitations period for and notifications required by the Act solely to exonerations under subchapter 1 unless such exonerations were the gateway to the Act.”
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