Virginia Code
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-476 (2026)
Officers, etc., willfully and deliberately permitting person convicted of, charged with, or adjudicated delinquent of a nonfelonious offense to escape or willfully refusing to receive person; penalty
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If any sheriff, jailer, or other officer, or any guard or other person summoned or employed by such sheriff, jailer, or other officer, willfully and deliberately permits a prisoner or person committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice convicted of, charged with, or adjudicated delinquent of an offense not a felony, to escape from his custody, or willfully refuses to receive into his custody a person lawfully committed thereto, he is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Code 1950, § 18.1-287; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1983, c. 360; 2013, cc. 707, 782.
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Cited in 2
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1982–2023 · leading case: State v. Dailey, 990 N.W.2d 523 (Neb. 2023).
State v. Dailey, 990 N.W.2d 523 (Neb. 2023). “” 34 The Tennessee Attorney General took a similar view in a 1994 opinion, finding that the term “commitment” was not limited to “formal commitment”; rather, it encompassed any lawful holding, and he found a “temporary holding” after an arrest and prior to an individual’s…”
Gross v. Tazewell Cnty. Jail, 533 F. Supp. 413 (W.D. Va. 1982). “” Va.Code (1950) § 18.2-476. Prior to the filing of the magistrate’s report, the Sheriff moved the court to join certain parties as defendants who were deemed necessary to proper resolution of the issues in this case.”
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