Lanier 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 “[t]he defendant must come forward with something more than speculation as to the usefulness of the identity of the informer”'
• holding that the accused “voluntarily” went to the police car and spoke to the officers
• concluding that appellant’s statement to police while he was in the back seat of a locked police vehicle did not require a Miranda warning in part because he entered the police car “of his own accord”
• “the finding of the trial judge as to the credibility of witnesses -6- and the weight to be given their testimony . . . will not be disturbed unless it is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).