Jett 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 there was sufficient evidence of penetration when the victim testified that appellant touched the “outside” of her “pookie” and there was “evidence of the victim’s pain and [of her] swollen clitoris”
• holding that “[t]he combination of direct and indirect evidence of penetration presented here is distinguishable from the equivocal testimony of the child victim in Moore, which was the sole evidence of penetration in that case”
• first quoting Horton v. Commonwealth, 255 Va. 606, 612 (1998); and then quoting Morrison v. Commonwealth, 10 Va. App. 300, 301 (1990)
• “[T]he clitoris lies within the labia majora; therefore, evidence of penetration or stimulation of the clitoris is sufficient to establish penetration of the labia majora . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Robinson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-07-08· cited 34×
• Andrew Becker, s/k/a Andrew Ira Becker v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-03-24· cited 34×
• McCary v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-12-30· cited 25×
• Mohajer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-04-15· cited 24×
• State v. Heath
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2019-11-21· cited 4×
• Velazquez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-03-27· cited 3×
• Mohajer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-09-17

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bridgeman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-12-16· cited 239×
• Canipe v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-10-14· cited 141×
• Bishop v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-03-09· cited 118×
• Clodfelter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-11-23· cited 104×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12· cited 98×
• Love v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-03-22· cited 65×
• Horton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-04-17· cited 49×
• CORRETT v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-12-01· cited 49×
• Morrison v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-05-08· cited 18×
• Phillips v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-08· cited 7×
• Jett v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-07-14· cited 6×