Appellants’ statements to police detectives about her injured child were properly admitted at trial even though she was not given Miranda warnings. The trial court correctly determined that the interview, which took place in an enclosed waiting area at the ...

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The trial court correctly denied appellant’s motion to strike the commonwealth’s evidence of burglary and destruction of property. There is sufficient evidence to affirm the court’s guilty verdicts on both charges. Background Price went to a shed on his property ...

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The trial court correctly determined that appellant’s “knuckle knife” was a weapon within the meaning of  Code § 18.2-308(A) and thus could not be concealed on his person. Appellant’s conviction for carrying a concealed weapon is affirmed. J.B., a 10-year-old ...

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Appellant’s reimposed sentences will be served consecutively because the original sentencing order is best understood as providing for concurrent service of the active sentences and consecutive terms for the suspended sentences. Overview In August 2016, appellant was convicted of grand ...

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The Workers’ Compensation Commission correctly determined that it lacked jurisdiction to hear a claim by a medical provider against a shipyard and its insurer for payment of services rendered to the shipyard’s employee. “[T]his case is controlled by the published ...

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The trial court properly admitted, under the relaxed evidentiary standard applicable at suspended sentence revocation hearings, field test results that established a vial found near appellant contained PCP. The trial court’s determination that appellant violated the good behavior provisions of ...

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Appellant’s convictions for fraudulent cigarette purchases and illegal distribution are affirmed. Appellant did not have valid documentation when he made bulk cigarette purchases and submitted no documentation that he remitted sales tax on the 40,000 cigarettes he purchased “on three ...

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Appellant’s argument that there was insufficient evidence to prove he inflicted the injuries found on a 4-year-old child’s body is belied by his admission to a police detective and a grand jury that he struck the child four times with ...

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Appellant’s exposure of his penis and genitalia to a child in a store, without more, was insufficient to convict him of taking indecent liberties with a child because there is no evidence that he had the requisite lascivious intent. His ...

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A high school student’s interview in his associate principal’s office that included the associate principal, a police detective and a school resource officer acting as the student’s translator was not a custodial interrogation, so no Miranda warnings were required. His ...

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