---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 60905"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "60905"
heading: "Subsequent reviews"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/60905"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters"
  - "Chapter 609 — Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights"
---

# §60905. Subsequent reviews

- (a) **Case file review—** If a review under [subsection (a)](#a) case file[^1] regarding a [cold case murder](/usc/34/60911.md?p=6) is conducted and a conclusion is reached not to conduct a full reinvestigation, no additional case file review shall be required to be undertaken under this chapter with respect to that [cold case murder](/usc/34/60911.md?p=6) for a period of five years, unless there is newly discovered, materially significant evidence. An [agency](/usc/34/60911.md?p=5) may continue an investigation absent a [designated person](/usc/34/60911.md?p=1)’s application.
- (b) **Full reinvestigation—** If a full reinvestigation of a [cold case murder](/usc/34/60911.md?p=6) is completed and a suspect is not identified at its conclusion, no additional case file review or full reinvestigation shall be undertaken with regard to that [cold case murder](/usc/34/60911.md?p=6) for a period of five years beginning on the date of the conclusion of the reinvestigation, unless there is newly discovered, materially significant evidence.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–164, § 6, Aug. 3, 2022, 136 Stat. 1359.)