Geoffrey Narcisco Rivera v. Commonwealth of Virginia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Davis applies with respect to a violation of Riley that occurred before Riley was decided
• noting that an appellate court is “generally precluded from accepting concessions of law” but may “agree with [such] concessions based on [its] independent review of the record”
• finding error where the trial court failed to apply a new rule which issued while defendant’s case was pending before it
• in analyzing the retroactivity of a judicial decision, characterizing the reasonableness of a search as a question of “substantive Fourth Amendment” law

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