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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

In the scrum that is capital litigation, for the next edition we’ve spotted: US Joshua Wayne Andrews v. Commonwealth, 2010 Va. LEXIS 239 (Va 9/16/2010) Death sentence vacated and remanded for assessment of punishment where the Commonwealth erred in the in which it proceeded to assert the aggravating factors in an apparent duplicitious manner. ” Upon review of the four capital murder convictions and death sentences imposed on the defendant, non-harmless errors occurred in the penalty-determination phase of the trial. The death sentences are vacated and the case is remanded for a new penalty-determination proceeding. Defendant’s convictions for robbery, malicious wounding, abduction, and various firearms charges are affirmed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 19, 2010 (boomark / email).