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PEREZ v. COM.

Record No. 0180-02-4.

580 S.E.2d 507 (2003)

40 Va. App. 648

Jorge Isaac Samudio PEREZ, s/k/a Jorge Samudio-Perez v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Alexandria.

May 20, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher C. Finch (Pelton, Balland, Young, Demesky, Baskin & O'Malie, P.C., on brief), Arlington, for appellant.

Richard B. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General (Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: ELDER, ANNUNZIATA and AGEE, JJ.

ANNUNZIATA, Judge.

A jury convicted Samudio-Perez of rape and sentenced him to serve six years in the penitentiary.1 On appeal, he contends the trial judge erred in denying his midtrial motion for a mistrial arising from a juror's prior relationship with one of the detectives assigned to the case. For the following reasons, we affirm.

Background

On appeal, we view the facts in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth...

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