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OVERTON v. COM.

Record No. 000552.

539 S.E.2d 421 (2000)

David Leston OVERTON, Jr. v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 3, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Donald Ford, Jr. (Keith N. Hurley; Cawthron, Picard & Rowe, on brief), Richmond, for appellant.

Pamela A. Rumpz, Assistant Attorney General (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

KINSER, Justice.

In this capital murder case, the defendant asks this Court to commute his sentence of death to life imprisonment. He contends that the circuit court imposed the death penalty under the influence of passion or prejudice, and that his sentence of death is disproportionate to sentences imposed in factually comparable cases. Finding no merit in the defendant's arguments and after reviewing his sentence of death...

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