· 11/30/1993
Lafon v. Commonwealth
Citations
- 438 S.E.2d 279
- 17 Va. App. 411
- 10 Va. Law Rep. 622
- 1993 Va. App. LEXIS 581
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 witness’s statements that he “knew” the defendant had committed murder were not “overt expressions of opinion,” but, rather, “impressions drawn from collected, observed facts”
- allowing testimony that the defendant had shown his friends how to \grab\ a woman fourteen months before the crime
- in reviewing abduction conviction, holding circumstantial evidence sufficient to show victim did not voluntarily accompany defendant to place where her body was found
- no rightto counsel during pre-arrest investigation
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Judges: Koontz
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