Sawyer 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 that we defer to the fact finder’s determination that the witness’ self-serving testimony is not worthy of belief
• upholding the admission of evidence of an earlier uncounseled conviction because appellant did not produce evidence rebutting the presumption of regularity
• involving a trial court’s rejection of a defendant’s testimony, unsubstantiated by medical records, that she had a chronic lung condition which prevented her from successfully completing the breath alcohol test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bernardi v. Klein
  W.D. Wisconsin· 2010-01-13· cited 7×
• In Re: Dwayne Lamont Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-01-24· cited 2×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Scott v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-05· cited 1,061×
• Nichols v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 832×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Alabama v. Shelton
  Supreme Court· 2002-05-20· cited 330×
• Schneider v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 148×
• Tarpley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-03-02· cited 102×
• Speight v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 101×
• James v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-08-02· cited 73×
• Nicely v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-09-16· cited 64×
• Griswold v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-06-07· cited 24×
• Hudson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-09-12· cited 18×
• Lamay v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-04-13· cited 14×