53 Va. App. 505 - Rose v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “It shall be unlawful for any person to use or attempt to use any pistol, shotgun, rifle, or other firearm or display such weapon in a threatening manner while committing or attempting to commit murder, rape, forcible sodomy, inanimate or animate object sexual penetration as defined in § 18.2-67.2, robbery, carjacking, burglary, malicious wounding as defined in § 18.2-51, malicious bodily injury to a law-enforcement officer as defined in § 18.2-51.1, aggravated malicious wounding as defined in § 18.2-51.2, malicious wounding by mob as defined in § 18.2-41 or abduction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 59 Va. App. 284 - Towler v. Commonwealth

2. “(1) that [Dezfuli] “possessed” an object; (2) that this object was a ... “firearm”; (3) that [Dezfuli] “used or attempted to use the firearm or displayed the firearm in a threatening manner”; and (4) that this action involving the firearm occurred during the commission or attempt to commit one of the felonies enumerated in the statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 58 Va. App. 1 - Dezfuli v. Commonwealth