PRINTER'S NO. 367
No. 353 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY MOWERY, BOSCOLA, COSTA, TOMLINSON, WAUGH, KITCHEN,
WENGER AND WOZNIAK, FEBRUARY 7, 2001
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 7, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the use of
3 evidence of intoxication or voluntary drugged condition.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 308 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 308. Intoxication or drugged condition.
9 Neither voluntary intoxication nor voluntary drugged
10 condition is a defense to a criminal charge, nor may evidence of
11 such conditions be introduced to negative the element of intent
12 of the offense[, except that evidence of such intoxication or
13 drugged condition of the defendant may be offered by the
14 defendant whenever it is relevant to reduce murder from a higher
15 degree to a lower degree of murder].
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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