Leonard v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting “it defies logic” to limit consideration of defendant’s attempted escape to avoid prosecution solely to his “lesser offenses” when several other serious charges were pending
• admissibility issues fall within the \broad discretion of the trial court\
• “[I]t is today universally conceded that the fact of an accused’s flight, escape from custody, resistance to arrest, concealment, assumption of a false name, and related conduct, are admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt, and thus of guilt itself.” (emphasis added

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ricks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-12-10· cited 56×
• Yvonie Décor Charles v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-04-29· cited 9×
• Leonard v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 2003-11-03
• Kevin Lamont Lambert v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-10-15
• Hylton v. Hamilton
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 2005-08-03
• Gary Butler Murray, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-02-24

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Koon v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-13· cited 3,761×
• Bordenkircher v. Hayes
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-06· cited 2,683×
• United States v. Goodwin
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-18· cited 1,581×
• Blain v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-09-06· cited 375×
• United States v. Erwin Edward Ballard, United States of America v. Richard Henry Bryan
  Fifth Circuit· 1970-02-25· cited 125×
• Thomas C. Shooltz v. Jane Hoffman Shooltz
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-04-28· cited 121×
• Timbers v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-08-18· cited 117×
• Langhorne v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-09-17· cited 93×
• United States v. Franke Eugenio Martinez
  Tenth Circuit· 1982-06-24· cited 71×
• Manns v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-02-25· cited 68×
• United States v. Nathaniel Williams
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-02-15· cited 61×
• Velazquez v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-01-11· cited 58×
• Kelley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1924-11-13· cited 24×