SEVERANCE v. COMMONWEALTH

Record No. 170829.

816 S.E.2d 277 (2018)

Charles Stanard SEVERANCE v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

July 19, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Hundley (Briglia Hundley, on briefs), Vienna, for appellant.

Robert H. Anderson, III , Senior Assistant Attorney General ( Mark R. Herring , Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

PRESENT: All the Justices.


A jury found Charles Stanard Severance guilty of murdering three residents of Alexandria, Virginia. Severance received a separate punishment for each murder. He appealed to the Court of Appeals, arguing that two of his three punishments violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution...

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