Brown 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 a preteen’s almost two-year delay in reporting her grandfather’s sexual abuse was explained by her testimony that he “told her not to tell,” she “didn’t think anybody w[ould] believe [her],” and “she felt scared and threatened”
• explaining that a twenty-one-month delay was reasonable because the victim was scared of the appellant and did not think anyone would believe her
• child \didn't think anybody was going to believe\ her and \felt scared and threatened\ by the sex offender
• “[T]he delay of -5- approximately two years was sufficiently explained and provided an adequate foundation for the admission of the child’s complaint.”
• Brown told victim “not to tell” because “she would get in trouble”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-07-12· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Silver
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2015-12-02

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Juares v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-12-09· cited 150×
• Woodard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-09-13· cited 40×
• Lindsey v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-12· cited 18×
• Castelow v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-03-16· cited 6×