
Formal Request to sponsor a Bill amending Code of Virginia § 18.2-58 to assign individual section codes to the newly defined Classes of felony robbery being 3, 5, and 6; those convictions not resulting in serious bodily injury or unlawful bodily injury. With the intent and purpose to be implemented retroactively, through petition to the court. If passed into law, men and women previously found guilty of robbery due to their reclassification under the new codes, would consequentially become eligible for earned sentence credits as their convicted offence, now with a new and unique code number, would no longer be included on the original list of exclusions. To reiterate this is not an amendment to the Goodtime Bill, and does not act contrary to the concerns and decisions of legislators who worked tirelessly together to bring that piece of legislation into effect, rather it only assigns new and individual section codes to the newly formed sections of robbery that were passed into law on January 21, 2021.