Legal Opinion
Roe v. Com.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided April 21, 2006No. Record 050909PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HASSELL, Chief Justice.
In this appeal, we consider whether the Commonwealth may prosecute a criminal defendant for certain crimes when the circuit court had previously granted the Commonwealth's motion to dismiss indictments alleging the same crimes.
The facts relevant to our disposition of this appeal are not in dispute. In 2002, a grand jury for the City of Richmond indicted George Julious Roe for the following offenses: abduction, use of a firearm in the commission of abduction, shooting into an occupied dwelling, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The defendant was scheduled…
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