TAYLOR v. COM.

Record No. 2236-09-1.

710 S.E.2d 518 (2011)

58 Va. App. 435

Kaitlin Airele TAYLOR v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Chesapeake.

June 28, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Melton for appellant.

Kathleen Martin , Senior Assistant Attorney General ( Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II , Attorney General of Virginia, on brief), for appellee.

Present: KELSEY, PETTY and BEALES, JJ.


KELSEY, Judge.

Kaitlin Airele Taylor appeals her conviction for grand larceny. She does not claim she was wrongly convicted or innocent of the crime. Instead, Taylor argues the trial court erred by not using its "inherent discretion and authority" to acquit her of grand larceny and substitute in its place a lesser crime of petit larceny. See Appellant's Br. at 4. The trial court held it had no such power. We agree and affirm.

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