Legal Opinion
Yeatts v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided September 20, 1991No. Record 910339 and 910340PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Carrico
In the first phase of a bifurcated trial conducted pursuant to Code §§ 19.2-264.3 and -264.4, a jury convicted Ronald Dale Yeatts of robbery and capital murder in the commission of robbery while armed with a deadly weapon. The jury fixed Yeatts’s punishment for robbery at 20 years in the penitentiary. In the second phase, the jury fixed Yeatts’s punishment for capital murder at death, based upon a finding of “future dangerousness.”
After considering a post-sentence report prepared by a probation officer, Code § 19.2-264.5, the trial court imposed the sentences fixed by the jury. Yeatts is here…
2Cases cited44 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Schneckloth v. BustamonteSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Edwards v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Miller v. FentonSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Adams v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by67 opinions
- Ronald Dale Yeatts v. Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1999
- Mueller v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1992
- Burns v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 2001
- Schmitt v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 2000
- Beavers v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1993
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