Perry v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that by freely and intelligently entering an Alford plea, an appellant waives his right to appeal the issue of “whether the evidence was sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty of that charge”
• holding that by “freely and intelligently entering” an Alford plea of guilty, the defendant “waived his right to appeal the issue of whether the evidence was sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty of th[e] charge”
• holding that by “freely and intelligently entering” an Alford plea of guilty, the defendant “waived his right to appeal the issue of whether the evidence was sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty of th[e] charge”
• holding that Alford pleas are treated the same as guilty pleas and thus by freely and intelligently entering an Alford plea, the defendant waived his right to appeal the issue of whether the evidence was sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty of the charge
• holding that Alford pleas are treated the same as a guilty plea and thus “by freely and intelligently entering an Alford plea,” Perry “waived his right to appeal the issue of whether the evidence was sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty of that charge.”
• “a voluntary and intelligent [Alford] guilty plea by an accused is a waiver of all defenses other than those jurisdictional”

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Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Carroll v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-11-04· cited 62×
• Cobbins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-12-02· cited 48×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-12-13· cited 36×
• Jonta Ramsey v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-12-08· cited 35×
• Jerome Alexander Griffin v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-01-12· cited 18×
• Arthur Amil Zebbs v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-05-17· cited 17×
• Carroll v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-09-01· cited 10×
• Latron Dupree Brown v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-08-01· cited 7×
• John Allen Baugh, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-01-30· cited 4×
• State v. Herndon
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2013-05-08· cited 3×
• Steven Wayne Shifflett v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-07-16

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Savino v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-04-20· cited 69×
• Dowell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-20· cited 35×
• Dowell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-10· cited 33×
• Cortese v. Black
  D. Colorado· 1993-11-23· cited 24×