HART v. COM.

Record No. 791798.

269 S.E.2d 806 (1980)

Thomas HART v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

August 28, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward S. Rosenthal, Alexandria (Miller, Rosenthal & Grimaldi, Alexandria, on briefs), for appellant.

Thomas D. Bagwell, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Before CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON and THOMPSON, JJ., and HARMAN, Special Justice.


COCHRAN, Justice.

The trial court, sitting without a jury, convicted Thomas Hart of statutory burglary, sentenced him to confinement in the penitentiary for two years, and suspended the entire sentence upon certain specified conditions. On appeal, the question is whether an oral confession made by Hart should have been excluded from evidence as the product of an unlawful search and seizure of his clothing.

On June 24, 1978, at approximately 5:00 a. m., a Fairfax...

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