Green v. Commonwealth

The dispositive issue before us is whether an appeal from a circuit court order revoking a defendant’s probation initially lies within the jurisdiction of this Court or the Court of Appeals.

In September 2000, Demarco A. Green was convicted in the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth of grand larceny, in violation of Code § 18.2-95. The circuit court sentenced Green to a term of three years’ imprisonment and suspended two years and nine months of that sentence conditioned, in part, on Green’s completion of a two-year period of supervised probation.

On October 4, 2000, Green signed a form…