Dearing v. Commonwealth
No. 992215 · Supreme Court of Virginia. Each entry below is the court's own record, with its date and a link. This page does not say which side is ahead or what an entry means.
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· Supreme Court of Virginia
Affirmed
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992215 Dearing v. Commonwealth 11/03/2000 Admission into evidence of a co-defendant's statement to police, implicating the defendant, while putatively error under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment, was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt under the circumstances of this case, and hence the conviction is affirmed. (Opinion Revised 11/20/00)
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