Isiah David Joseph v. Commonwealth of Virginia

How courts have described this case

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

• relying upon multiple legal and non-legal dictionary definitions and citing Bateman v. Commonwealth, 205 Va. 595, 599-600 (1964), in which the Court “rel[ied] exclusively” on a dictionary definition
• “[T]his case rises or falls based on the definition of the word ‘fleeing.’”
• “Concessions of legal error, however, do not relieve the appellate court of its responsibility to perform its judicial function. While such concessions are entitled to great weight, they do not remove the Court’s obligation to conduct its own review.”
• relying upon multiple legal and non-legal dictionary definitions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).