22 Va. App. 508 - Jenkins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““Part of the difficulty in ‘not-for-truth’ situations is due to the fact that often such evidence will have a dual nature; the declaration may indeed be relevant on some matter unrelated to the truth of the content of the statement, and yet the content of the statement may go to the issues of the case as well. See, e.g., Donahue v. Commonwealth, [ 225 Va. 145 , 300 S.E.2d 768 (1983) ]. This is perhaps the situation which creates the greatest dilemma for the courts. In that regard, however, it should be remembered that it is a time-honored principle of evidence law that, in general, if evidence is admissible for any purpose, it is admissible.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 23 Va. App. 225 - Brown v. Commonwealth · 25 Va. App. 171 - Brown v. Commonwealth