23 Va. App. 614 - Waldrop v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 2000
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Griffin v. California · Cleveland v. United States · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 172 - Traverso v. Commonwealth · Cable v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“neither raised the expectation in the jury's mind that appellant would testify nor challenged the jury to notice and possibly draw an inference from whether or not appellant testified”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prohibits `the prosecutor's use of any language or other device which compels a defendant to testify.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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