Criminal - Drug Transaction - Prior Sale Videotape - Other Crimes (access required)

By Deborah Elkins
Published: June 16, 2008

At defendant’s trial for cocaine distribution, the trial court erred in permitting the jury to consider a videotaped recording of a drug transaction as evidence pertaining to an earlier transaction after the court struck the evidence of the later transaction, the Virginia Supreme Court holds. Defendant contends the trial court erred in permitting the jury to ...
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