Coppola v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that both defendant and another, who jointly participated in a fatal beating, were subject to conviction for capital (now aggravated) murder under Code § 18.2-31
• entrapment cases present issues of credibility the resolution of which is “peculiarly within the jury’s province”
• defendant entered house with co-conspirators, robbed victim, and then choked and beat her to death
• finding evidence regarding the life sentence of a codefendant irrelevant
• regarding matters within common knowledge
• addressing co-defendants’ sentencing for capital murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).