Pitt v. Commonwealth

SENIOR JUSTICE STEPHENSON

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this appeal, we consider the defendant’s claim that the trial court committed reversible error in admitting into evidence a co-defendant’s statement to police.

I

A jury in the Circuit Court of the City of Virginia Beach convicted the defendant, Deshon W. Pitt, of attempted robbery and fixed his punishment at ten years’ imprisonment and a fine of $50,000. The trial court’s judgment approved the jury’s verdict.

Pitt appealed the judgment to the Court of Appeals, and a panel of the Court affirmed the conviction. Following a hearing en…