DEARING v. COM.

Record No. 982401.

524 S.E.2d 121 (2000)

259 Va. 117

Alfred DEARING, Jr. v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 14, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah E. Hennesy, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Eugene Murphy, Assistant Attorney General (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


HASSELL, Justice.

The primary issues in this appeal are whether a circuit court violated a criminal defendant's federal constitutional right to confrontation by admitting in evidence a co-defendant's confession and, if so, whether such error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.

I.

Alfred Lovell Dearing, Jr., was indicted by a grand jury in Alexandria for the robbery of Andre Moore and use of a firearm during the commission of a robbery. He was...

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