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Hall v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 686 S.E.2d 554
  • 55 Va. App. 451
  • 2009 Va. App. LEXIS 567

How courts have described this case

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  • applying these common law principles, holding an individual was in custody for purposes of the escape statute, Code § 18.2-478, when the officer \spoke words of arrest and actually touched Hall for the stated purpose of arrest\
  • applying these common law principles, holding an individual was in custody for purposes of the escape statute, Code § 18.2 — 478, when the officer “spoke words of arrest and actually touched Hall for the stated purpose of arrest”
  • “the slightest touching of an officer to the person of a suspect for the purpose of arrest accomplishes an arrest”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McClanahan, Haley, Beales

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