Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided March 2, 2007No. Record 060363PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY Justice BARBARA MILANO KEENAN.
This appeal arises from the Court of Appeals' dismissal of a petition for a writ of actual innocence based on non-biological evidence, in which a petitioner sought relief based on recantation evidence provided by a co-defendant who had given contrary testimony at the petitioner's trial. We consider various issues related to the Court of Appeals' consideration of the petition under the provisions of Code §§ 19.2-327.10 through-327.14.
In September 2001, Dwayne Lamont Johnson (Johnson) was tried by a jury in the Circuit Court of New Kent County for…
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