Winston v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that accommodation is a mitigation of punishment
• defendant bears the burden to prove an accommodation distribution by a preponderance of the evidence
• accommodation jury instruction properly refused where evidence established that defendant facilitated sale by procuring drugs and delivering them to informant
• accommodation statute provides for mitigation of punishment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Barlow v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-27· cited 76×
• Frere v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-01-03· cited 23×
• Cregger v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-06-24· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 2005-11-10
• Melissa Nanette Diaz v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-02-27

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Grimstead
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-05· cited 429×
• Boone v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-24· cited 100×
• Brandau v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-05-25· cited 70×
• Heacock v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 56×
• Myrick v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-11-26· cited 49×
• Stillwell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-08-31· cited 44×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-04-18· cited 42×
• Schindel v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-03-02· cited 27×
• Basfield v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-10-02· cited 18×
• Gardner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-06-11· cited 9×