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Although the commonwealth agreed not to seek the death penalty in exchange for defendant’s plea of guilty to a series of criminal indictments which included capital murder, the trial court nevertheless did not err in imposing the death penalty on ...

Although the prosecution disclosed during trial a tape recording of a co-defendant’s statement which the prosecution previously had not provided to defendant, no prejudice resulted from late disclosure of the tape and the failure to dismiss the case was not ...

Where a police officer received a telephone tip from a previously reliable informant that a male meeting a certain detailed physical description was sitting in front of a particular building with cocaine in his pocket, and the trained and experienced ...

The Winchester Circuit Court did not err in terminating the parental rights of appellants to four of their seven children under Va. Code § 16.1-283(B). First, the uncontradicted evidence presented by the Department of Social Services established that these children ...

Where defendant failed to properly preserve his sufficiency challenge for appeal, and the evidence does not affirmatively disprove that defendant took wire and manhole covers from a city lot or that the wire and manhole covers he sold to a ...

Although drugs previously had been observed at a location where illegal cockfighting and wagering occurred, and the police thought there would be hunters with weapons on the premises when they executed a warrant based on information provided by an undercover ...

Although the trial court declined to sentence defendant for malicious shooting and attempted malicious wounding in accordance with the Virginia Sentencing Guidelines, this decision did not deny defendant due process and equal protection of the law. The sentencing guidelines computation ...

Driving On Suspended License Although defendant claims he could not be convicted of driving on a suspended license because the DUI offense for which his license was suspended was a conviction under an invalid local Fairfax County ordinance, the ordinance ...

Although defendant made explicit sexual overtures toward the victim, the 16-year old stepdaughter of his ex-brother-in-law, and fondled her near her intimate parts and sought to persuade her to let him touch her intimate parts, defendant sought to impose nothing ...

Where a trial court admitted new evidence at the remand hearing on the value of a certain property, when the value had been conclusively established at the first equitable distribution hearing and had not been challenged on appeal, and where ...