Hugo Alberto Sandoval v. Commonwealth of Virginia

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• explaining that the constitutional protection against double jeopardy applies to lesser-included offenses arising from the same act
• noting that courts apply Blockburger “[w]hen ‘the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions’” (emphasis added) (quoting Coleman v. Commonwealth, 261 Va. 196, 200 (2001))
• noting that the interpanel accord doctrine precludes the overruling of a published decision of a panel of the Court of Appeals other than by the Court of Appeals sitting en banc or by the Supreme Court of Virginia

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