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· 11/2/2001

Scates v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 553 S.E.2d 756
  • 262 Va. 757
  • 2001 Va. LEXIS 132

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  • reversing the conviction because the defendant’s admission that he “jammed” credit cards into doors in order to enter other homes was not admissible as demonstrative of a common “scheme of breaking into homes”
  • reversing the conviction because the defendant's admission that he \jammed\ credit cards into doors in order to enter other homes was not admissible as demonstrative of a common \scheme of breaking into homes\

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