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Trevathan v. Commonwealth (ORDER)

REVERSED status graphic: Trevathan v. Commonwealth (ORDER). 180803 Trevathan v. Commonwealth (ORDER) 08/23/2019 Appeal is awarded from a final order entered by the Court of Appeals of Virginia on May 18, 2018, which is reversed. The Court of Appeals erred in ruling that the defendant's knowing, intelligent, and voluntary guilty plea waived his right to appeal, and in dismissing the case rather than denying the appeal. A voluntary and intelligent guilty plea is a waiver of all non-jurisdictional defects that occurred before entry of the plea, thus the ra…
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