42 Va. App. 607 - Bragg v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 2014
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Abney v. United States · Webb v. Commonwealth · United States v. Burns · Federal Land Bank v. Birchfield · State v. Pedroncelli
Most-quoted passages
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“did not intend to continue taking money from the church. Only when a debt arose that [the defendant] could not pay from his own income would he cash a check from the church. After paying that debt, [the defendant] had no intention to embezzle again. These debts were intervening acts that created individualized intentions to embezzle. Further, the trial court properly concluded that [the defendant], by using the funds for making gifts to third parties, evidenced a series of single impulses. [The defendant's] bills for computer services, his extravagant gifts, and his international trip rebutted any general and continuing need for basic living expenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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