Christopher Wayne Butler v. Commonwealth of Virginia

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• affirming that a “jury determine[s] all the factual elements of the offense” including “enhanced factors for sentencing” as elements of the offense
• noting that a published decision from a panel of this Court “cannot be overruled except by the Court of Appeals sitting en banc or by the Virginia Supreme Court” (quoting Clinchfield Coal Co. v. Reed, 40 Va. App. 69, 73 (2003))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).