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Shackleford v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 547 S.E.2d 899
  • 262 Va. 196
  • 2001 Va. LEXIS 78

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that defendant had abandoned a bag containing a gun and drugs, which he had deliberately left behind in a taxi that had transported him to a motel, when he determined that he was being followed by police
  • holding “the circuit court did not err in taking judicial notice of the conversion ratio” between standard units of measurement
  • defendant can bring Convention claim in judicial proceeding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Kinser, Koontz

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35 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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