Legal Opinion
In Re: Brown
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided March 22, 2018No. Record 161422PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY JUSTICE D. ARTHUR KELSEY
In 1970, a jury found Sherman Brown guilty of first-degree murder of a four-year-old child. The child's mother ("M.B.") testified that, after she rejected Brown's demand for sex, he knocked her unconscious, and upon awaking, she discovered that she had been repeatedly stabbed. While she was unconscious, her four-year-old son had been stabbed to death. Brown did not testify at his trial or proffer any evidence suggesting that someone else committed the attack.
In 2016, Brown filed a petition seeking a writ of actual innocence pursuant to Code §§ 19.2-327.1 to…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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