· 1/16/2015
Taylor, Gini Lee
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- holding that Code § 18.2-279 reflects “a 8 “Virginia courts strive to decide cases on the best and narrowest grounds available.” Nottingham v. Commonwealth, 77 Va. App. 60, 67 n.6 (2023) (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Matzuk v. Price, 70 Va. App. 474, 481 n.6 (2019)
- “[H]andling an instrumentality as inherently dangerous as a loaded firearm in an occupied building, with one’s finger on the trigger, [constitutes] criminal[] negligen[ce] if discharge . . . endanger[s] others in the building.”
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