Chapter I: Applications for review and reconsideration

Revision of a final criminal judgment may be requested for the benefit of any person convicted of a felony or misdemeanour where, after conviction, a new fact occurs or a factor unknown to the court on the day of the trial comes to light of such a nature as to establish the innocence of the convicted person or to give rise to doubt as to his guilt.

A review of a final criminal judgment may be requested for the benefit of any person convicted of an offence where it follows from a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights that the conviction was handed down in violation of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms or its additional protocols, where, by its nature and gravity, the violation found entails harmful consequences…

Revision and review may be requested: 1° By the Minister of Justice; 2° By the public prosecutor at the Cour de cassation; 3° By the convicted person or, in the event of incapacity, by his legal representative; 4° After the death or declared absence of the convicted person, by his spouse, the partner linked by a civil solidarity pact, his cohabitee, his children, his parents, his grandchildren or great-grandchildren, or…