Commonwealth v. Wilkerson

PRESENT: All the Justices COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA OPINION BY v. Record No. 230914 CHIEF JUSTICE S. BERNARD GOODWYN February 20, 2025 JEROME LEE WILKERSON FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA In this appeal, we consider whether the Court of Appeals erred in determining that the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to sustain a conviction for possession of a controlled substance. I. BACKGROUND On February 20, 2020, Sergeant Hoggard of the Norfolk Sherriff’s Office received information that there was cocaine in cell block 2K of the Norfolk City Jail. After the inmates were all secured…