In Re Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Corrections

On April 28, 1981, the Department of Corrections of the Commonwealth of Virginia (the Department) filed its petition in this Court for a writ of prohibition to be directed to the Honorable J. R. Snoddy, Jr., Judge of the Circuit Court of Cumberland County, and to that court, to prohibit the judge and the court from enforcing orders heretofore entered suspending the sentences of three convicted felons, co-defendants Larry Noel Sherman, Daniel Curry Crowley and David Steeves Taylor, and from entering orders to modify, suspend or vacate the sentences of two additional co-defendants, Douglas…