Thomas v. Com.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that juvenile adjudications may not be used for general impeachment unless the Confrontation Clause requires it to “show bias or motivation of a prosecution witness to give testimony favorable to the government”
• “A principal in the second degree, or an aider or abettor as he is sometimes termed, is one who is present, actually or constructively, assisting the perpetrator in the commission of the crime.” (quoting Muhammad v. Commonwealth, 269 Va. 451, 482 (2005))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).