Legal Opinion
Dowell v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided January 6, 1987No. 0390-85PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BARROW, J.
This is an appeal of a conviction of grand larceny in which the defendant contends that she was denied effective assistance of counsel because her attorney represented two co-defendants called to testify against her. We agree and conclude that the judgment must be vacated and the matter remanded to the trial court for further proceedings.
The defendant was charged with the larceny of four car radios from a Radio Shack store in a shopping mall in Albemarle County. An employee of another store in the same mall who attended high school with the defendant recognized her as she…
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