Hall v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that, “in 1990, the legislature repealed Code § 19.2-317.1 which provided for direct appeal of certain ineffective assistance claims”
• “Whether a defendant should be permitted to withdraw a guilty plea rests within the sound discretion of the trial court to be determined based on the facts and circumstances of each case.”
• on direct appeal, the court considered appellant’s claim that plea of guilty was involuntary based on counsel’s ineffectiveness; however, the court referred to the rule in Walker and refused to directly rule on the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-04-21· cited 138×
• Thomas Lee Royal, Jr. v. John B. Taylor, Warden, Sussex I State Prison
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-08-16· cited 109×
• Zigta v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-04-23· cited 34×
• Cleaton v. Department of Justice
  Federal Circuit· 2016-10-13· cited 27×
• Beck v. Angelone
  E.D. Virginia· 2000-05-05
• Royal v. Taylor
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-08-16
• Commonwealth v. Wike
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2000-10-13
• Commonwealth v. Momen
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2006-08-02

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Parris v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-04-25· cited 109×
• Jefferson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-06-09· cited 63×
• Walker v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-01-21· cited 55×
• Browning v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-11-29· cited 30×
• Hoverter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-11-12· cited 29×