52 Va. App. 529 - Copeland v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
28 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Young v. United States · Gibson v. United States · Armstrong v. Commonwealth · 47 Va. App. 168 - Logan v. Commonwealth · Carpitcher v. Com.
Most-quoted passages
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“given the need to ensure that the writ of actual innocence does not evolve into an omnibus substitute for the carefully crafted procedures of the habeas corpus writ, Code § 8.01-654, et seq. , or impinge upon the Governor's exclusive power over executive clemency, Code § 53.1-229 , et seq.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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