Honorable Joe Moody, Chair, House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB3247 by Cain (Relating to creating the criminal offense of prosecutorial misconduct.), As Introduced
The bill would create a second degree felony offense for certain acts of prosecutorial misconduct involving destroying, withholding, or failing to disclose certain information or evidence that was a substantial contributing factor to a wrongful conviction or intentionally obstructing the exoneration of a wrongfully convicted defendant.
Creating a new criminal offense may result in an increase in demands upon state and local correctional resources due to a possible increase in the number of individuals placed under supervision in the community or sentenced to a term of confinement.
It is assumed that any impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources would not be significant.