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· 2/2/1999

Burley v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 510 S.E.2d 265
  • 29 Va. App. 140
  • 1999 Va. App. LEXIS 70

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting the significance of a defendant’s possession of the weapon used in a murder and finding that “[a]ny evidence that linked him to the weapon tended to make his guilt more probable”
  • in murder prosecution in which accused “vigorously attacked any testimony linking him to the gun” until just before his arrest, upholding admission of evidence of separate murder committed by accused with same weapon more than a month after charged offense occurred

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Judges: Coleman, Bumgardner, Lemons

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