Reid v. Commonwealth

Opinion

ELDER, J.

Dexter Reid, appellant, also known as Gary Shaw, was convicted by the trial court under Code § 18.2-168, based on its finding that he gave the alias of Gary Shaw when arrested on September 10, 1991, and signed that same name, although misspelled as Gray, on his fingerprint card. An investigator subsequently examined appellant’s fingerprint card and determined that those fingerprints matched the prints on five other cards already on file with the Central Criminal Records Exchange (CCRE) of the Virginia State Police, all of which bore the signature of Dexter Reid. Appellant…