James v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[a] silent record or . . . mere naked assertion by the accused . . . is insufficient . . . to rebut the presumption of regularity that attached” to the prior conviction
• noting that in the absence of an affirmative showing that a guilty plea is entered “intelligently, voluntarily, and knowingly, . . . the trial court . . . is . . . required[] to reject the plea” (quoting Graham, 11 Va. App. at 139)
• “Compliance with the fourth amendment depends . . . on ‘an objective assessment of an officer’s actions in light of the facts and circumstances then known to him.’” (quoting Bosworth v. Commonwealth, 7 Va. App. 567, 570, 375 S.E.2d 756, 758 (1989))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).