Legal Opinion
O'Dell v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided January 15, 1988No. Record 861219 and 870157PublishedCited by 146 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhiting, J.
Joseph Roger O’Dell, III 1 was indicted and tried before a jury for the capital murder of Helen C. Schartner in the commission of, or subsequent to, rape, Code § 18.2-31(e), as well as for her abduction, rape, and sodomy by force. The trial court granted O’Dell’s motion to strike the evidence on the abduction charge. The jury convicted O’Dell on all the remaining counts, and fixed his punishment at 40 years each on the rape and sodomy charges. In the second phase of the bifurcated trial, the jury heard evidence of aggravating and mitigating circumstances and fixed O’Dell’s sentence at death,…
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