Legal Opinion
Brown v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided July 8, 1997No. 0753952PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*175UPON A REHEARING EN BANC
COLEMAN, Judge.
Floyd Keith Brown was convicted by a jury of statutory burglary, rape, and two counts of forcible sodomy. A panel of this Court reversed the convictions on the ground that the trial court erroneously excluded as hearsay two statements offered by the defense. See Brown v. Commonwealth, 23 Va.App. 225, 475 S.E.2d 836 (1996). We granted the Commonwealth a rehearing en banc.
Upon rehearing, we uphold the trial court’s ruling that the defendant’s out-of-court question to a police officer was inadmissible hearsay. However, we hold that an out-of-court…
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