Brooks v. Commonwealth

PETTY, J., with whom FRANK and HUMPHREYS, JJ, join,

concurring.

Rule 5A:12(c)(l) requires that “[a]n exact reference to the pages of the transcript, written statement of facts, or record where the alleged error has been preserved in the trial court ... shall be included with each assignment of error.” (Emphasis added). In Brooks’s replacement petition for appeal, he included two assignments of error. For his first assignment of error, that “the trial court erred when it did not suppress the evidence obtained from the search of the vehicle,” Brooks cited to the portion of the transcript…