Dunn 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 certificate of analysis properly admitted when appellant did not offer evidence to rebut the Commonwealth’s proof of chain of custody
• no break in the chain of custody where the evidence was transferred between laboratories
• “Code § 19.2-187 permits the Commonwealth to introduce into evidence at trial a certificate of analysis ‘of a person performing an analysis or examination, performed in any laboratory operated by . . . the Division of Forensic Science.’”
• the judgment of a trial court is presumed correct on appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Barkley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-02-11· cited 81×
• Jeter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-01-18· cited 62×
• Thomas Pope, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-07-31· cited 52×
• Alvarez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-05-27· cited 43×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-01-23· cited 35×
• Waylon Allen Cox v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-12-01· cited 24×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-01-12· cited 4×
• In Re: Hargrove
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2025-12-18

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-07-21· cited 959×
• Branch v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-07-14· cited 210×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-01· cited 153×
• Crews v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-03-29· cited 64×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-04-18· cited 42×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-30· cited 35×
• Erickson-Dickson v. Erickson-Dickson
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-30· cited 32×