CANTRELL v. COM.

Record No. 840269.

329 S.E.2d 22 (1985)

William Jeffery CANTRELL v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 26, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Lowe, Charlottesville (S. Strother Smith, III, Abingdon, Lowe & Jacobs, Ltd., Charlottesville, on brief), for appellant.

John H. McLees, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Gerald L. Baliles, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


RUSSELL, Justice.

After an earlier trial had ended in a hung jury, William Jeffery Cantrell was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife, Judy, and of the use of a firearm in the commission of the murder. The second jury fixed punishment at life imprisonment for murder, plus one year on the firearm charge. We granted him an appeal limited to three issues: whether his due process rights were infringed when private counsel, employed by the victim's family, played...

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