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BURKET v. COM.

Record No. 940880.

450 S.E.2d 124 (1994)

Russel William BURKET, v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 4, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. William McGraw, Jr. (Cheshire I'Anson Eveleigh, Wolcott, Rivers, Wheary, Basnight & Kelly, on briefs), for appellant.

Thomas C. Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen. (James S. Gilmore, III, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, STEPHENSON, WHITING, LACY and HASSELL, JJ., and HARRISON, Retired Justice.

HASSELL, Justice.

In this appeal, we review the capital murder conviction and sentence of death imposed upon Russel William Burket.

I.

PROCEEDINGS

Burket was indicted by a Virginia Beach grand jury for the capital murder of Katherine A. Tafelski and Ashley Tafelski as part of the same act or transaction. Code §§ 18.2-31 and 18.2-10. He was also indicted for sexual penetration with an inanimate object of Katherine Tafelski, malicious...

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