Arrington v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Usually, a trial court may cure an improper statement by counsel without the necessity of granting a mistrial.”
• “An opening statement is not evidence; its purpose is ‘merely to inform the jury of what counsel expects the evidence to be so that they may better understand the evidence.’” (quoting Fields v. Commonwealth, 2 Va. App. 300, 307 (1986))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-05-20· cited 2×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Evans-Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-20· cited 166×
• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 119×
• Albert v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-19· cited 57×
• Fields v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-05-06· cited 28×