Legal Opinion

Johnson, Ronald v. Commonwealth

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided December 8, 2016No. Record 151200PublishedCited by 35 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION BY JUSTICE STEPHEN R. McCULLOUGH

**740 Johnson was charged with three felonies: forgery, uttering, and attempting to obtain money by false pretenses. All three charges stemmed from allegations that Johnson had altered a check written by a third party and attempted to cash it. Johnson was ordered to appear before the City of Fredericksburg General District Court for a preliminary hearing, for all three charges, on June 20, 2013. Johnson did not appear on that date.

As a consequence of his failure to appear, a grand jury indicted Johnson for three counts of felony failure to appear under…

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2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Brown v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  3. Illinois v. VitaleSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. Zinone v. LEE'S CROSSING HOMEOWNERS ASS'NSupreme Court of Virginia · 2011
  5. Blythe v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1981

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3Cited by35 opinions

  1. Dietz v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 2017
  2. Commonwealth v. GreggSupreme Court of Virginia · 2018
  3. Howard Allen Groffel v. Commonwealth of VirginiaCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 2019
  4. Turner v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 2018
  5. Severance v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 2018

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