22 Va. App. 46 - Jones v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2016
24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Brewster v. Derwinski · Connors v. United States · Stockton v. Commonwealth · Hines v. Commonwealth · Burton v. Oldfield
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) The declarant is dead. (2) The declarant is too ill to testify. (3) The declarant is insane. (4) The declarant is absent from the state and the party is unable to obtain the declarant’s deposition. (5) The parly has been unable by diligent inquiry to locate the declarant. (6) The declarant cannot be compelled to testify. (7) The opposite party has caused the declarant's absence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding that Brown’s memory loss at trial, whether real or feigned, rendered him unavailable. Brown’s testimony at trial was not forthcoming, despite the Commonwealth’s repeated questions, its attempt to refresh his memory, and its grant of immunity. Brown admitted that he simply did not want to testify and ultimately could not be compelled to “remem her.” Thus, although Brown appeared in court and testified to his present lack of memory, he was “unavailable” for purposes of the exception. In such cases, the focus of the inquiry is not the unavailability of the witness but the unavailability of the testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“At Jones’ trial, the Commonwealth called both Johnson and Brown as witnesses. Both men testified that they did not remember either the incident or having spoken with the police. Brown further claimed that he did not know Jones and that he had no memory of the events leading to Watson’s death. In response to the Commonwealth’s questions, Brown asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. - The Commonwealth then granted immunity to Brown, but Brown claimed that he did not want to testify. Brown continued to maintain that he could not remember the crime. He also maintained that he could not remember his statement to the police, or testimony at the preliminary hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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