Dowell v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that appellant did not receive the effective assistance of counsel when her attorney also represented her two codefendants who testified against her at trial
• holding that the Commonwealth’s elicitation of testimony from two witnesses whom defense counsel was also representing in connection with the defendant’s same offense “was sufficient to bring to the court’s attention a conflict of interest and to trigger an appropriate inquiry”
• holding that the Commonwealth’s elicitation of testimony from two witnesses whom defense counsel was also representing in connection with the defendant’s same offense “was sufficient to bring to the court’s attention a conflict of interest and to trigger an appropriate inquiry”
• considering on direct appeal claim of ineffective assistance of counsel due to conflict of interest arising from counsel's representation of multiple codefendants
• considering on direct appeal claim of ineffective assistance of counsel due to conflict of interest arising from counsel’s representation of multiple codefendants
• considering on direct appeal claim of ineffec- tive assistance of counsel due to conflict of interest arising from coun- sel's representation of multiple codefendants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Coleman v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 12,560×
• Mackall v. Angelone
  Fourth Circuit· 1997-12-18· cited 117×
• Hill v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-04-04· cited 31×
• Jarrod Antonio Spence v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-07-10· cited 13×
• Mickens v. Greene
  E.D. Virginia· 1999-11-05· cited 13×
• Carter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-01-22· cited 12×
• Payne v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-02-02· cited 12×
• Mackall v. Murray
  Fourth Circuit· 1997-03-25· cited 8×
• MacKall v. Angelone
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-02-06
• Mackall v. Angelone
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-02-24

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Glasser v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1942-02-09· cited 10,035×
• Cuyler v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,389×
• Holloway v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1978-04-03· cited 2,478×
• Wood v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-04· cited 1,161×
• Castillo v. Estelle
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-12-09· cited 90×
• Magnolia Ross, Petitioner-Appellee-Appellant v. Robert Heyne and Theodore L. Sendak, Respondents-Appellants-Appellees
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-12-10· cited 75×
• United States v. Joseph Vincent Truglio
  Fourth Circuit· 1974-03-14· cited 70×
• Walker v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-01-21· cited 55×
• Parker v. Parratt
  Eighth Circuit· 1981-10-28· cited 36×
• United States v. Bill Mahar
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-04-14· cited 27×
• United States v. Lee McComas Ramsey, United States of America v. Cecil Zedrick Ramsey, United States of America v. Sharon Wray
  Fourth Circuit· 1981-11-10· cited 20×
• Johnny Lee Wilson v. Ernest Morris
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-01-05· cited 13×