Commonwealth of Virginia v. Rayshawn Torrell Greer

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a “trial court’s authority to depart downward below a mandatory minimum is ‘nonexistent’” (quoting Lilly v. Commonwealth, 50 Va. App. 173, 187-88 (2007))
• stating that interpretation of the common law presents a legal question “reviewed de novo on appeal”
• stating that interpretation of the common law presents a legal question “reviewed de novo on appeal”
• jury sentence below statutory minimum was unlawful and the trial court’s imposition of that sentence was void ab initio
• court “obligated to reject the jury’s verdict” beneath the mandatory minimum sentence and must “impanel a new jury to determine punishment within the prescribed limits established by the legislature”

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