LaShaunda Tenika Meekins v. Commonwealth of Virginia

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA Present: Chief Judge Decker, Judges O’Brien and AtLee Argued at Richmond, Virginia PUBLISHED LASHAUNDA TENIKA MEEKINS OPINION BY v. Record No. 0459-19-2 JUDGE MARY GRACE O’BRIEN APRIL 28, 2020 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND Phillip L. Hairston, Judge Lauren Whitley, Deputy Public Defender, for appellant. Rosemary V. Bourne, Senior Assistant Attorney General (Mark R. Herring, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee. LaShaunda T. Meekins (“appellant”) entered a no contest plea to the voluntary manslaughter of Randy Jones,…