Supreme Court of Virginia, 2006

Published opinions from 2006. The case name opens the case page.

2006 opinions

The Supreme Court of Virginia found no reversible error in Juniper’s capital-murder and related convictions or in the death sentences, and affirmed the trial court’s judgment. It rejected or found waived his challenges to pretrial rulings, jury selection, expert assistance, evidence, jury instructions, and the…

VirginiaCommonwealth of Virginia v. Rebecca Scarlett Cary.

January 13, 2006271 Va. 87

The Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed the Court of Appeals' judgment vacating Cary's convictions and remanding for a new trial. It held that Cary preserved her self-defense-instruction claim by proffering a legally correct instruction and that the evidence, viewed favorably to her, supported an inference that Beekman…