When an application for review is referred to the committee investigating applications for review and reconsideration pursuant to Article 622, it shall take into account all new facts or unknown elements on which one or more applications previously submitted may have been based and shall refer to the judgment formation of the Court of Revision and Reconsideration applications for which it considers that a new fact has occurred or that an element unknown on the day of the trial has come to light.
When new information reveals that a third party may have been involved in the commission of the acts, the Commission will immediately notify the competent public prosecutor, who will carry out the necessary investigations and may open a judicial inquiry, which may not be entrusted to a judge who has already heard the case. The public prosecutor or examining magistrate may not refer the case to a criminal investigation department or officer who took part in the investigation that led to the applicant’s conviction.