Overton v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that appellant’s “failure to make contemporaneous objections at trial precludes consideration,” under Rule 5:25, of certain claimed sentencing errors raised on appeal
• applying Rule 5:25 to failure to object to victim impact testimony or introduction of photographs in Code § 17.1-313(C) review of death sentence
• applying Rule 5:25 to failure to object to victim impact testimony or introduction of photographs in Code § 17.1-313(C) review of death sentence
• “His failure to make contemporaneous objections at trial precludes consideration of those issues on appeal. Rule 5:25.”
• “Overton insists that his request to die had to influence the court’s sentencing determination. However, we are unwilling to disregard the court’s unequivocal statement that it did not consider Overton’s request.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).