Dowden v. Commonwealth

Douglas E. Dowden was tried before a jury in the Circuit Court of Loudoun County and convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of his son, Dyvon Dowden. He was sentenced in accordance with the jury’s verdict to serve 10 years’ imprisonment, and the circuit court suspended execution of seven years of that sentence. The Court of Appeals affirmed the circuit court’s judgment and, here, Dowden challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction.

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Applying well-established principles of appellate review, we will consider the evidence and all reasonable inferences fairly deducible…