Johnson 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 the trial court did not err in refusing the defendant’s request for a continuance
• holding that the trial court did not err by refusing to allow a continuance and substitution of counsel on the day trial was scheduled when five previous continuances had been allowed
• showing of exceptional circumstances required where request for continuance was filed the morning of trial
• considering “five prior continuances” as a factor in upholding the trial court’s denial of continuance
• “Gonzalez-Lopez clearly applies only to sitúa tions where a trial court erroneously denies a defendant his right to counsel of his choice.”
• the trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying defendant’s motion to continue to give defendant’s new attorney time to prepare when the case had -5- been continued five times (three times at the defendant’s request

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• George Wesley Huguely, V v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-03-04· cited 81×
• Miguel Antonio Reyes v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-01-09· cited 14×
• Brailey v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-12-22· cited 6×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-26· cited 1,863×
• Morris v. Slappy
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 1,843×
• United States v. D. Spencer Grow and C. Oran Mensik
  Fourth Circuit· 1968-03-18· cited 115×
• Feigley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-07-13· cited 85×
• United States v. Mitchell
  Second Circuit· 1943-11-08· cited 65×
• Avery v. County School Board
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-05-07· cited 58×
• Shifflett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 52×
• Myers & Axtell v. Trice
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1890-04-24· cited 44×
• Bolden v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-10-23· cited 41×
• Gilchrist v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-06-15· cited 38×
• Carlton v. Paxton
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-17· cited 38×
• Paris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-02-20· cited 32×
• Cherricks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-09-25· cited 29×
• London v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-12-28· cited 12×
• Carter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-02-25· cited 8×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-11-06· cited 6×