Commonwealth v. Harley

In this case, the defendant, Eugene Nakia Harley, was convicted in the Circuit Court of the City of Virginia Beach of one count of robbery, two counts of abduction, and three counts of the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He was sentenced to serve a total of forty-three years in the penitentiary, with twenty-five years suspended.

Harley appealed his convictions to the Court of Appeals, raising the sole question whether the trial court erred in denying his motion for a transcript of a suppression hearing at state expense. In a published opinion, the Court of Appeals held that…