Isaac v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “a criminal defendant’s case in chief . . . by its very nature, seeks to [counter] . . . the Commonwealth’s evidence”
• involving evidence of blood alcohol content (BAC) where the defendant objected to the BAC certificate admitted by the Commonwealth but then introduced his own certificate showing a lower but still incriminating BAC level
• first quoting Pettus v. Commonwealth, 269 Va. 69, 79 (2005); then quoting Combs v. Commonwealth, 256 Va. 490, 499 (1998); and then quoting Snead v. Commonwealth, 138 Va. 787, 802 (1924)
• waiver due to a defense exhibit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).