Medici v. Commonwealth

SENIOR JUSTICE STEPHENSON

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this appeal, we determine whether the Court of Appeals erred in ruling that the trial court correctly (1) refused to strike for cause a prospective juror, (2) admitted into evidence the defendant’s prior rape convictions in the guilt/innocence phase of his trial, and (3) refused to accept the defendant’s stipulation that he had prior rape convictions.

I

A grand jury of the Circuit Court of Fairfax County indicted Lawrence P. Medici on four offenses. Count I of the indictment charged that Medici “did rape [the victim], a second or…