Legal Opinion

Pitt v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Virginia

Decided January 5, 1999No. Record 1015-97-1Published

1Opinion of the Court

508 S.E.2d 891 (1999)

28 Va. App. 730

Deshon W. PITT

v.

COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Record No. 1015-97-1.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Norfolk.

January 5, 1999.

Donald S. Clarke, Virginia Beach, for appellant.

Kathleen B. Martin, Assistant Attorney General (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: BENTON, ELDER and LEMONS, JJ.

ELDER, Judge.

Deshon W. Pitt (appellant) appeals his conviction for attempted robbery. He contends the trial court abused its discretion when it granted the Commonwealth's pretrial motion made pursuant to Code § 19.2-262.1 to try him jointly with Lambert…

Also in this document: Concurrence; Concurring in part, dissenting in part.

2Cases cited41 opinions

  1. Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Delaware v. Van ArsdallSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. Ohio v. RobertsSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  5. Richardson v. MarshSupreme Court of the United States · 1987

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