Keith Osborne Collins v. Commonwealth of Virginia

ANNUNZIATA, Judge.

In each of these cases, appellants were convicted under Code § 18.2-119 of trespassing. On appeal, appellants contend: 1) the police had no lawful authority, as agents of the manager of a public housing complex, to issue them a trespass notice, and 2) the process whereby they were barred from reentering such complex violated their constitutional right to due process. We find no merit in appellants’ arguments and affirm the convictions.

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FACTUAL BACKGROUND

On June 29, 1995, the management of Loudoun House Apartments, a federally-subsidized apartment complex, issued a limited…