Swan v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice NOBLE.

The Appellants Marcus D. Swan and D’Andre Owens were tried and convicted of multiple crimes related to a violent home invasion they carried out in 2008 in which they stole money and threatened to kill the home’s inhabitants, two of whom they ultimately shot and one of whom they threatened to rape and sodomize. They raise numerous issues on appeal, some in common and others independently. The Court hereby affirms Swan’s judgment of conviction and sentence in its entirety, and affirms in part and reverses in part Owens’s judgment, though his overall sentence…