Evans 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 evidence that the victim waited to report the crime until after she learned she had contracted an STD was relevant and of probative value because it tended to show that the charge may have been false and motivated by ill-will
• The complaining witness’s statement that she contracted a sexually transmitted disease does not involve prior sexual “conduct.”
• where relevant evidence is not of prior sexual “conduct,” Code § 18.2-67.7 does not apply
• “[E]vidence that a complaining witness contracted a venereal disease after the date of the alleged offense is relevant because it tends to prove that the infected person harbors bias or ill-will against a recent sexual partner.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cairns v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-04-15· cited 30×
• Barnes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-10-24· cited 22×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-02-23· cited 22×
• Bowman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-07-27· cited 16×
• State v. Ricardo Ozuna, Jr.
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2013-10-07· cited 13×
• Pughsley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-10-31· cited 7×
• Patrick J. Mannix, s/k/a Patrick J.Mannix,Sr. v. CW
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-01-04· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Beverly
  Suffolk County Circuit Court· 2000-05-18

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lavinder v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-30· cited 364×
• Clinebell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-04-22· cited 143×
• Wise v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 67×
• Cash v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-02-02· cited 42×
• League v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-11-07· cited 21×