23 Va. App. 696 - Janis v. Commonwealth

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Jay v. Com. (2008), 42 Va. App. 739 - Seaton v. Commonwealth (2004)

33 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.

¶1Charles R. Watson, Colonial Heights, for appellants.

¶2Marla Graff Decker, Assistant Attorney General (James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

¶3Before MOON, C.J., and BAKER, BENTON, COLEMAN, WILLIS, ELDER, BRAY, FITZPATRICK, ANNUNZIATA and OVERTON, JJ.

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UPON A REHEARING EN BANC

¶5In Janis v. Commonwealth,22 Va.App. 646, 650-51, 472 S.E.2d 649, 651 (1996), a majority of a panel of the Court reversed and remanded the convictions of Kimberly O. Janis and Thomas Janis. A dissenting opinion was filed in the panel decision. The Commonwealth's petition for rehearing en banc was granted and heard on November 26, 1996. For the reasons stated in the panel's majority opinion, the convictions are reversed, the matters are remanded to the Circuit Court of Dinwiddie County and, accordingly, the stay of this Court's July 9, 1996 mandate is lifted.

¶6Chief Judge Moon, Judges Baker, Coleman and Fitzpatrick would affirm the judgment of the trial court for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion of the original panel decision.

¶7This order shall be published and certified to the trial court.