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· 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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