Denial of Proximate Cause Instruction Harmless

By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 10, 2012

Tags: Criminal, Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr., Virginia Court of Appeals

Defendant is not entitled to reversal of his jury trial conviction and one-year prison sentence for leaving the scene of an accident in violation of Va. Code § 46.2-894, the Court of Appeals says; the evidence proved defendant was a proximate cause of a motorcyclist running off the road and the denial of defendant’s requested ...

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