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Commonwealth v. Bass
No. 151163Supreme Court of Virginia
151163 Commonwealth v. Bass 06/02/2016 In an appeal from a robbery conviction, the Court of Appeals misapplied the ends of justice exception to Rule 5A:18 and erroneously reversed the defendant's conviction du…
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151163 Commonwealth v. Bass 06/02/2016 In an appeal from a robbery conviction, the Court of Appeals misapplied the ends of justic…
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151163 Commonwealth v. Bass 06/02/2016 In an appeal from a robbery conviction, the Court of Appeals misapplied the ends of justice exception to Rule 5A:18 and erroneously reversed the defendant's conviction due to a variance between the indictments and the evidence presented at trial. It also erred in declining to address the defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of the Commonwealth's evidence after reversing the defendant's conviction, and in ruling that in retrial on remand he could not be prosecuted for any claim beyond attempted robbery. The contention that the Commonwealth's evidence was insufficient to convict defendant of robbery because the testimony of the Commonwealth's eyewitn…
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151163 Commonwealth v. Bass 06/02/2016 In an appeal from a robbery conviction, the Court of Appeals misapplied the ends of justice exception to Rule 5A:18 and erroneously reversed the defendant's conviction due to a variance between the indictments and the evidence presented at trial. It also erred in declining to address the defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of the Commonwealth's evidence after reversing the defendant's conviction, and in ruling that in retrial on remand he could not be prosecuted for any claim beyond attempted robbery. The contention that the Commonwealth's evidence was insufficient to convict defendant of robbery because the testimony of the Commonwealth's eyewitn…
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