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Eckhart v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 279 S.E.2d 155
  • 222 Va. 213
  • 1981 Va. LEXIS 293

How courts have described this case

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

  • “A judge, unlike a juror, is uniquely suited by training, experience and judicial discipline to disregard potentially prejudicial comments and to separate, during the mental process of adjudication, the admissible from the inadmissible, even though he has heard both.”
  • statement not hearsay because admitted for non-hearsay purpose

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Judges: Compton

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