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· 7/18/1995

Shawn D. Granger v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 20 Va. App. 576
  • 459 S.E.2d 106
  • 12 Va. Law Rep. 15
  • 1995 Va. App. LEXIS 589

How courts have described this case

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  • holding evidence of defendant’s fingerprint on broken bottle of liquor used to incapacitate robbery victim was insufficient to exclude hypothesis that defendant may have handled the bottle for an innocent purpose before the robbery
  • finding that evidence of the defendant’s fingerprint on broken bottle of liquor used to strike the victims “[did] not exclude the hypothesis that [the defendant] may have handled the bottle for an innocent purpose before the robbery”
  • fingerprints of accused on whiskey bottle failed to exclude hypothesis that he handled it for an \innocent purpose\
  • defendant's fingerprints on liquor bottle used in robbery insufficient evidence

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Judges: Moon, Benton, Elder

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