Legal Opinion
Yarbrough v. WARDEN, SUSSEX STATE PRISON
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided March 3, 2005No. Record 021660PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*32 KEENAN, Justice.
This petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed under our original jurisdiction. We consider whether the petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel in a second penalty phase proceeding conducted after we remanded his capital murder case.
I. PROCEEDINGS
The petitioner, Robert Stacy Yarbrough, was convicted in a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Mecklenburg County (the circuit court) of the capital murder of Cyril Hugh Hamby during the commission of robbery, in violation of Code § 18.2-31(4), and of the robbery of Hamby, in…
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