Supreme Court of Virginia, 1990

The court affirmed Spencer’s convictions for capital murder, rape, and burglary and left his death sentence in place. It found no error in admitting evidence of the other similar crimes or the PCR DNA evidence, and no abuse of discretion in the challenged evidentiary and trial rulings; several claims were procedurally…

The court affirmed Cheng's noncapital convictions but reversed his capital-murder conviction because the evidence did not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that he was the person who fired the fatal shots.