Gravely 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 the Commonwealth’s improper examination of defendant’s witness was not harmless error because the jury would not have heard the evidence but for the cross-examination
• holding that the Commonwealth’s improper cross-examination of the defendant’s witnesses was not harmless error because the jury would not have heard the challenged evidence but for the cross-examination
• holding that the Commonwealth’s improper cross-examination of the defendant’s witnesses was not harmless error because the jury would not have heard the challenged evidence but for the cross- examination
• on cross-examination of defense character witness Commonwealth may not question about unrelated offenses occurring after the date of the events giving rise to the pending charges

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lockhart v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-26· cited 14×
• Pughsley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-10-31· cited 7×
• Lockhart v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-06-15
• Gardner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2014-06-05

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lavinder v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-30· cited 364×
• Zirkle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-09-07· cited 85×
• Basham v. Terry, Administratrix
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1958-03-10· cited 42×
• Weimer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-09-15· cited 22×
• Barlow v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-12-03· cited 9×
• Byrdsong v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-06-17· cited 8×
• Kanter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1938-11-21· cited 8×
• Chiles v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-01· cited 7×
• Ginger v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-11-15· cited 4×
• Al Beavers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1927-01-20· cited 4×