29 Va. App. 600 - Esparza v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
October 2013
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 174 Ill. 2d 320 - People v. Evans · 12 Va. App. 1003 - Lavinder v. Commonwealth · Paul v. Paul · Grant v. Commonwealth · Slayton v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“has not actually been transferred to a receiving unit of the Department,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n sum, we hold that Code § 19.2-303 invests courts with discretionary authority to modify a sentence post-conviction in all felony cases, including those in which the defendant has been sentenced pursuant to a plea agreement so long as the defendant is in the local jail and has not been delivered to the Department of Corrections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he law effective when the contract is made is as much a part of the contract as if incorporated therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. Com.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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