Dozier v. Commonwealth

We granted this writ to consider whether the Commonwealth’s failure to disclose certain evidence in its possession denied defendant Mark Anthony Dozier a fair trial.

Under two indictments tried jointly, one charging statutory rape and the other abduction of a female under the age of 16 for purposes of prostitution, defendant was convicted by a jury of both offenses. Cindy Floyd was the principal witness for the Commonwealth. According to her testimony at trial, she and a girl friend ran away from their homes in Virginia on January 17,1977. Three days later in Washington, D. C., she met…