Bennefield 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 double jeopardy provisions of United States Constitution are co-extensive with those of Virginia Constitution
• noting that protections afforded under Virginia Constitution are coexistent with those in federal constitution
• upholding the circuit court’s factual finding that the prosecutor’s last minute disclosure of evidence and failure to review police documents, while constituting “gross negligence” and “near total indifference . . . to Court Orders,” did not show intent to provoke a mistrial
• “For that reason, he was better able to determine how the prosecution’s case was progressing, and whether the prosecutor had any motivation or desire to cause a mistrial so as to gain a more favorable position at a new trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).