Virginia Public Radio

One of the bills that Governor McDonnell has signed into law revises the rules that allow an offender who was wrongly convicted to prove that he’s innocent of the crime.  The measure chips away at the state’s longstanding 21-day rule, which gives an offender only three weeks after a final order of conviction to bring new evidence to the court which could prove he’s not guilty.  As Virginia Public Radio’s Anne Marie Morgan reports, the new law simply changes the standard that a defendant must satisfy to be exonerated.