Banks v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence that the Commonwealth's witness distributed drugs while investigating the defendant for drug-related activity was admissible to show that the witness had a motive to falsely implicate the defendant in order to conceal his own crimes
• upholding admission of “[e]vidence of specific acts of misconduct to show bias or motive to fabricate,” even though inadmissible if offered merely for impeachment
• “If believed, the trier of fact could reasonably infer from the defendant’s proffered evidence that Barnwell had a strong motive to implicate the defendant in order to conceal his own alleged drug-dealing activities.”
• relevant evidence that is not collateral should be admitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lockhart v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-02-20· cited 43×
• Hackney v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-09-15· cited 32×
• Newton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-04-06· cited 31×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-01· cited 27×
• Cousins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-05-25· cited 25×
• Clinard Gary Lambert v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-03-12· cited 14×
• Hackney v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-12-09· cited 7×
• Kevin Lamont Lambert v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-10-15

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Allen
  California Court of Appeal· 1978-01-25· cited 115×
• Barker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 91×
• United States v. Angel Rios Ruiz, A/K/A Junior Rios
  First Circuit· 1978-06-28· cited 68×
• Speller v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-06-17· cited 43×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-06-12· cited 39×
• Hewitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-01-20· cited 26×
• Woody v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-10-08· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Shands
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-25· cited 24×
• Henson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1936-01-16· cited 20×
• Largin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-10-14· cited 19×
• United States v. Harold Miles
  Second Circuit· 1973-06-07· cited 18×
• Overton v. Slaughter
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-11-21· cited 15×
• Adams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-11-30· cited 13×
• Dunbar v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-03-02· cited 8×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-02-18· cited 1×