Supreme Court of Virginia, 2009

The Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed the Court of Appeals’ judgment upholding Grattan’s convictions. It held that the trial court’s competency finding was supported by the record and that the court acted within its discretion in excluding Grattan’s expert sanity testimony after he refused to cooperate with the…

The Supreme Court of Virginia held that the evidence was sufficient to support Williams’s conviction for possessing methadone with intent to distribute. The quantity and combination of drugs, the methadone’s packaging, and the evidence concerning the drugs’ value supported the trial court’s finding that Williams…