PENNSYLVANIA, June 16 - PRINTER'S NO. 648

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

588

Session of

2021

INTRODUCED BY GORDNER AND HUGHES, APRIL 21, 2021

REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, APRIL 21, 2021

AN ACT

Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, in general provisions, further

providing for when prosecution barred by former prosecution

for different offense.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 110(1) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 110. When prosecution barred by former prosecution for

different offense.

Although a prosecution is for a violation of a different

provision of the statutes than a former prosecution or is based

on different facts, it is barred by such former prosecution

under the following circumstances:

(1) The former prosecution resulted in an acquittal or

in a conviction as defined in section 109 of this title

(relating to when prosecution barred by former prosecution

for the same offense) and the subsequent prosecution is for:

(i) any offense of which the defendant could have

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