Legal Opinion
Dearing v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided November 3, 2000No. Record 992215PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SENIOR JUSTICE POFF
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Alfred Lovell Dearing, Jr., was convicted by a jury of robbery and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. The Circuit Court of Arlington County imposed the jury’s verdict, and the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment in an unpublished opinion. Dearing v. Commonwealth, Record No. 1233-98-4 (August 17, 1999) [hereinafter Dearing /]. We awarded Dearing an appeal. The Commonwealth now concedes that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a co-defendant’s statements to police. Cf. Dearing v. Commonwealth, 259 Va. 117,…
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