Lilly v. Commonwealth

Pursuant to a jury trial held in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County in 1996, Benjamin Lee Lilly (Lilly) was convicted and sentenced to death for the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of Alexander V. DeFilippis in the commission of robbery in violation of Code § 18.2-31(4). In Lilly v. Commonwealth, 255 Va. 558, 499 S.E.2d 522 (1998), we affirmed the trial court’s judgment and the death sentence.* Thereafter, Lilly successfully petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of certiorari. The *551Supreme Court reversed a portion of our judgment, holding that the…