44 Va. App. 368 - Orndorff v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2006
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stockton v. Commonwealth · 5 Va. App. 188 - Evans-Smith v. Commonwealth · 40 Va. App. 255 - Congdon v. Congdon · Odum v. Commonwealth · Thompson v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“the [circuit] court abused its discretion in relying on the jury's apparent rejection of Orndorff's mitigating evidence at sentencing as grounds for concluding that such evidence would not produce a different result at the guilt phase.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Orndorff v. Com.“her mental state at the time of the crime should lead to a finding of legal insanity by Virginia law under the `irresistible impulse' test of the insanity statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Orndorff v. Com.“no surprise [that already] having found Orndorff to be a murderer and a liar, the jury apparently found her belated mitigating evidence of insanity unpersuasive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Orndorff v. Com.
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