Hernandez v. Com.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “inherent authority” to defer disposition existed after the trial court found that the evidence was sufficient to convict the defendant
• explaining that a Virginia trial court \has no inherent authority to depart from the range of punishment legislatively prescribed\
• explaining that a Virginia trial court “has no inherent authority to depart from the range of punishment legislatively prescribed”
• noting that despite a trial court’s inherent authority to defer disposition, it has no authority after the entry of judgment to depart from the -8- legislature’s prescribed punishment
• noting a circuit court has the inherent authority to take the matter under advisement or continue the case to a later date

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).