Shelton v. Commonwealth

BENTON, Judge.

The trial judge convicted Charles Herman Shelton, Jr., of one count of carjacking. Shelton contends the trial judge erred by admitting into evidence a statement he made to police officers without the benefit of warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966). We affirm the conviction.

I

A grand jury indicted Shelton for robbery, see Code § 18.2-58; Chappelle v. Commonwealth, 28 Va.App. 272, 274-75, 504 S.E.2d 378, 379 (1998), and carjacking, see Code § 18.2-58.1, of a taxi driver in Alexandria. At a hearing on Shelton’s pretrial motion…