Joquan Wayne Hawkins v. Commonwealth of Virginia

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• holding that abdominal surgery for the victim’s bullet wound, resulting in a permanent scar, “did not relieve appellant from liability or break the chain of the causal connection between the shooting and the scar because the surgery was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the shooting”
• recognizing a victim’s large abdominal scar as a permanent and significant injury
• applying a proximate cause analysis in an aggravated malicious wounding case that involved medical care after the crime which partially caused the impairment
• affirming conviction for aggravated malicious wounding where abdominal surgery for a bullet wound inflicted by the defendant resulted in the - 14 - victim having a large, permanent scar

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