Legal Opinion
Helms v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided May 22, 1990No. Record No. 0625-88-4Published
1Opinion of the Court
392 S.E.2d 496 (1990)
Norman Jeffrey HELMS
v.
COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.
Record No. 0625-88-4.
Court of Appeals of Virginia.
May 22, 1990.
E.E. Sanders, Jr., for appellant.
Robert Q. Harris, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.
Present: BAKER, COLEMAN and KEENAN, JJ.
JOSEPH E. BAKER, Judge.
Norman Jeffrey Helms (appellant) appeals his bench trial conviction by the Circuit Court of Prince William County (trial court) for possession of phencyclidine (PCP). He asserts that the trial court erred by failing to suppress (1) the evidence of PCP discovered in a film canister…
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- United States v. ChadwickSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Ybarra v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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