Epps v. Commonwealth

PETTY, Judge.

Pursuant to a plea agreement with the Commonwealth, 1 appellant, Brandon P. Epps, pled guilty to possession of a controlled drug in violation of Code § 18.2-250. The trial court accepted Epps’s plea and found him guilty as charged. Before sentencing, Epps filed a motion requesting the trial court to vacate its finding of guilt and continue the case generally, or alternatively, to suspend imposition of sentence pursuant to Code § 19.2-308 with an implied final disposition that would avoid a conviction. At Epps’s sentencing hearing, after listening to argument by Epps’s counsel,…