Gosling v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• distinguishing Mullis in part because the two sides presented solely officer and inmate testimony as evidence
• reversing conviction where a juror repeatedly stated “that he would tend to believe a correctional officer and to disbelieve witnesses that were inmates” because he believed that the officer lacked any incentive to lie, whereas inmates were incentivized to lie
• after lengthy explanation of law regarding the credibility of witnesses, juror again indicated that he would favor the testimony of a corrections officer
• reviewing a juror’s voir dire in these two steps

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cressell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-07-11· cited 61×
• State v. Jonas
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-12-01· cited 58×
• Griffin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-02-14· cited 56×
• Sizemore v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-10-23· cited 23×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-02-23· cited 22×
• Green v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-27· cited 21×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-08-29· cited 20×
• Brooks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-04-15· cited 17×
• Swanson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-05· cited 14×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-05-10· cited 9×
• Reeves v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-03-23· cited 5×
• Kuzminski v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-04-18· cited 2×
• Natalie Marie Keepers v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-04-14
• Benjamin Lawrence Burton v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-07-22
• Juan B. Rodriguez, s/k/a Juan Bautista Rodriguez v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-09-09

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Justus v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-04-18· cited 143×
• Breeden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-09-02· cited 125×
• Mullis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-01-06· cited 64×
• Salina v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-06-11· cited 55×
• Parsons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1924-01-17· cited 39×
• Educational Books, Inc. v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-11-05· cited 29×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-04-01· cited 11×