Rowland v. Com.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “the qualifier ‘while’ limits the applicability of Code § 18.2-53.1 to use of a firearm ‘during’” the commission of the predicate offense
• noting that “the qualifier ‘while’ limits the applicability of Code § 18.2-53.1 to use of a firearm ‘during’” the commission of the predicate offense
• explaining, in the context of § 18.2-53.1, that “‘while’ is synonymous with ‘during’”
• explaining, in the context of § 18.2-53.1, that “‘while’ is synonymous with ‘during’”
• reversing the defendant’s conviction for using a firearm in the commission of statutory burglary where no one saw the defendant enter the restaurant and the elements of burglary were complete before he “used or displayed a firearm” toward the restaurant’s occupants
• use of a firearm in commission of burglary requires proof that the firearm was used before entry was fully accomplished

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).