Robinson 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 a party must object with specificity to give the trial court an opportunity to rule in order to avoid unnecessary appeals and retrials
• “These questions solicited irrelevant and highly prejudicial matters. . . . [T]he only conceivable purpose of the questions by the Commonwealth’s attorney was to inflame the passions of the jury against the accused and his witness.”
• “The purpose of Rule 5A:18 is to avoid unnecessary appeals, reversals, and mistrials by requiring litigants to inform the trial judge of the action complained of so that the judge has the opportunity to consider the issue intelligently and take timely corrective action.”
• “The purpose of the contemporaneous objection rule embodied in Rule 5A:18 is to inform the trial judge of the action complained of in order to give the judge the opportunity to consider the issue and to take timely corrective action . . . .”

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Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Riner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-05-06· cited 32×
• Robinson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-01-11· cited 19×
• Cuffee-Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-12-31· cited 11×
• Scialdone v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-29· cited 9×
• Hills v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-09-26· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Brangan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-08-12· cited 3×
• Scialdone v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-01-13· cited 2×
• Hills v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-05-23· cited 2×
• Robinson v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-03-24· cited 1×
• Edwards Jones, s/k/a Edward S. Jones v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-01-13
• Barry R. Taylor v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-01-13

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• LeVasseur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 272×
• Harward v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-01-19· cited 81×
• Hogan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-09-01· cited 34×
• MacKenzie v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-16· cited 18×