Evans v. Commonwealth

A jury found Wilbert Lee Evans guilty of capital murder as defined by Code § 18.2-31(f), in the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of a law-enforcement officer for the purpose of interfering with the performance of the officer’s official duties. 1 In the second stage of the bifurcated proceeding conducted pursuant to the provisions of Code §§ 19.2-264.3 and -264.4, the same jury fixed Evans’s punishment at death. After considering the probation officer’s report required by Code § 19.2-264.5, the trial court imposed the death sentence recommended by the jury. We have consolidated…