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· 5/13/2003

Craddock v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 580 S.E.2d 454
  • 40 Va. App. 539
  • 2003 Va. App. LEXIS 296

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting expert testimony that “each of the twelve rocks of crack had been ‘individually packaged,’ indicating that the cocaine could be sold in small, individual quantities”
  • upholding an obstruction conviction under subsection (C) where officers were eventually able to complete a search of the defendant’s person despite his extended struggling that kept them from doing so for three to four minutes and continued throughout the search
  • removal of drugs from resisting arrestee’s anal cavity — without having to pull on bag — did not render strip search unreasonable
  • removal of drugs from resisting arrestee’s anal cavity did not constitute manual body cavity search when officer did not have to pull bag out from buttocks
  • upholding an obstruction conviction under subsection (C

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Judges: Kelsey

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