Foster-Zahid v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that venue lay in Fairfax, the location where child was to be returned
• finding that Virginia court had jurisdiction to prosecute out-of-state parent for parental abduction where Virginia parent delivered child to defendant out-of-state and defendant failed to return child to Virginia
• pointing out that the act of withholding is the gravamen ofthe offense; doing so outside the commonwealth is the element elevating a misdemeanor to a felony
• affirming mother's conviction, holding that clear intent of the statute is to punish more severely those who withhold a child from its rightful custodian when the detention is outside of Virginia

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Michael Anthony Edwards v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-12-19· cited 92×
• Johnson v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-12-09· cited 26×
• Traveyan Lee Chambliss v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-10-22· cited 23×
• Larwan Badru Bonner v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-07-23· cited 19×
• Raja v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-06-03· cited 14×
• Carl Burnes Gordon v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-08-27· cited 11×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-07-31· cited 11×
• Keselica v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-02-04· cited 7×
• Goble v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-09-14· cited 6×
• Grace Nadine McGuire v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-05-22· cited 6×
• Boston Correll v. Herring
  E.D. Virginia· 2016-07-11· cited 5×
• Jaynes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-09-05· cited 3×
• Foster-Zahid v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12· cited 2×
• State v. Lefthand
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2015-09-03· cited 1×
• Bonner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-12-11· cited 1×
• GARDON v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-08-27
• Frank Boyd, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-07-14
• Commonwealth v. Napier
  Buchanan County Circuit Court· 2016-06-20

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strassheim v. Daily
  Supreme Court· 1911-05-15· cited 337×
• Cheng v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-06-08· cited 243×
• Loudoun County Department of Social Services v. Etzold
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-01-08· cited 54×
• Pollard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-01-11· cited 51×
• Travelers Health Ass'n v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-01-10· cited 39×
• Rios v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1987-02-24· cited 32×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-07-22· cited 30×
• Farewell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1937-01-14· cited 30×
• Wheat v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1987-03-27· cited 26×
• Moreno v. Baskerville
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-01-13· cited 24×
• Strother v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-03-03· cited 23×
• Trindle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-03-16· cited 21×
• United States v. Steinberg
  Second Circuit· 1932-12-05· cited 17×
• State v. Doyle
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1992-04-01· cited 15×
• State v. Kane
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1993-06-09· cited 15×
• Howell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-01-12· cited 14×
• Gregory v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-06· cited 13×
• People v. Harvey
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1989-01-03· cited 12×
• People v. Caruso
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-02-26· cited 12×
• Curtis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-02-11· cited 11×

Other cases named Foster-Zahid v. Commonwealth

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Foster-Zahid v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12· cited 2×
• Foster-Zahid v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12