Lewis 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 that courts “will not assume that the [declarant] will assert the privilege against self-incrimination” in the absence of the declarant actually doing so
• holding a circuit court’s ruling made more than 21 days after entering a final order was a “nullity”
• “A statement that is against the penal interest of the declarant at the time it is made is admissible as a declaration against interest exception to the hearsay prohibition.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bass v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-01-27· cited 49×
• Randolph v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-03-11· cited 27×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-12· cited 23×
• Nowlin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-04-15· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Fields
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2014-04-10
• Carrie Susanne Davis, s/k/a Carrie Ann Davis v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-05-26

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-09-11· cited 80×
• Newberry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-10-10· cited 46×
• Scaggs v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-09-01· cited 28×
• Yellow Cab Co. v. Eden
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1941-10-13· cited 24×
• Boney v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-06-29· cited 23×
• Morris v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-03-08· cited 14×