West Virginia Code
Article 2B. Distribution of Crime Profits
§14-2B-3. Definitions

As used in this article:
(a) "Crime" means any offense designated by the provisions of this code as a felony or misdemeanor.
(b) "Crime profits" means:
(1) Any property obtained through or income generated from the commission of a crime of which the defendant was convicted;
(2) Any property obtained by or income generated from the sale, conversion or exchange of proceeds of a crime, including any gain realized by such sale, conversion or exchange; or
(3) Any property which the defendant obtained or income generated as a result of having committed the crime, including any assets obtained through the use of unique knowledge obtained during the commission of, or in preparation for the commission of, the crime, as well as any property obtained by or income generated from the sale, conversion or exchange of such property and any gain realized by such sale, conversion or exchange.
(c) "Crime victim" means the victim of the offense or the personal representative of a crime victim.
(d) "Defendant" means a person charged with a crime or convicted of a crime after trial, by entry of a plea of guilty or by entry of a plea of nolo contendere in any court in this state. The term "defendant" shall also include any person found by a court of record to be not criminally responsible for the commission of a crime by reason of mental illness, mental retardation or addiction.
(e) "Court" means the circuit court of the county wherein the defendant is charged with or was prosecuted for the commission of the crime.
(f) "Personal representative" means an attorney-in-fact or legal guardian of a living person or the executor, administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their status of the estate of a deceased person.
(g) "Prosecutor" means the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the defendant is charged with or was prosecuted for the commission of the crime.
(h) "Contract" means any agreement, whether reduced to writing or not, in which any person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity contracts for, pays or agrees to pay, any crime profits to a defendant or to a defendant's personal representative.

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