59 Va. App. 710 - Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 2012
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Hudson · Parks v. Commonwealth · Morrison v. Bestler · Porter v. Com. · 25 Va. App. 215 - Redman v. Commonwealth
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“Where a conviction is rendered upon a voluntary and intelligent guilty plea and a punishment fixed by law is in fact imposed in a proceeding free of jurisdictional defect, there is nothing to appeal.” Smith v. Commonwealth, 59 Va.App. 710, 725 , 722 S.E.2d 310, 317 (2012). However,”
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