S704 - COVID-19 Recovery Act . (SL 2020-3)

Overview: Sec. 4.41 of S.L. 2020-3 temporarily allowed a chief district court judge to modify an order of confinement or imprisonment in a local confinement facility if all of the following conditions were met:

• Due to the local confinement facility's restrictions on inmates during the COVID-19 State of Emergency, the defendant was unable to serve one or more periods of confinement.
• Unless the order was modified, the defendant would have been in violation of the criminal judgment.
• The District Attorney consented to the modification of the criminal judgment.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This section became effective May 4, 2020 and expired August 1, 2020.