D'Andre Davon Ballard v. Commonwealth of Virginia

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA PUBLISHED Present: Judges Beales, Fulton and Lorish Argued at Norfolk, Virginia D’ANDRE DAVON BALLARD OPINION BY v. Record No. 1698-23-1 JUDGE LISA M. LORISH NOVEMBER 6, 2024 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS C. Peter Tench, Judge1 Daniel B. Winegard, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant. Andrew T. Hull, Assistant Attorney General (Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee. Ordinarily, the Commonwealth may prosecute a defendant under multiple, similar statutes for the same criminal conduct. When a…