Legal Opinion
Cherry v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided March 24, 1992No. Record No. 1950-89-1PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
COLEMAN, J.
Amos Lee Cherry entered a conditional guilty plea to possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute. The trial court convicted him of that crime and sentenced him to ten years in the penitentiary and fined him $10,000. Cherry reserved the right to appeal the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress an inculpatory statement in which he admitted that he owned a jacket in which the cocaine was discovered. Cherry contends that the statement should have been suppressed because the police officers failed to give him Miranda warnings before interrogating him about who…
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