Yeatts v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding Miranda waiver voluntary in spite of defendant’s “low intelligence” and “stress” he suffered from “drugs, alcohol, and loss of sleep”
• holding that merely making a contemporaneous objection when a witness improperly referenced the defendant’s “prior crimes” was insufficient to preserve for appeal a challenge to the denial of a later mistrial motion made on that same ground because the motion came too late
• “Making a timely motion for mistrial means making the motion ‘when the objectionable words were spoken.’” (quoting Reid v. Baumgardner, 217 Va. 769, 774 (1977))
• it is'assumed that the jury follows instruction to consider mitigating evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).