· 11/2/2001
Scates v. Commonwealth
Citations
- 553 S.E.2d 756
- 262 Va. 757
- 2001 Va. LEXIS 132
How courts have described this case
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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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Judges: Lemons
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