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Defendant sought review of the judgment of the Circuit Court of Fairfax (Virginia), which convicted defendant of perjury in contravention of Va. Code § 18.2-434 in connection with his testimony at trial on a charge of driving a motor vehicle on a public highway after his privilege to drive had been suspended. Defendant testified at that trial that he had not received notice that his driving license had been suspended.
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Va. Code § 18.2-434 provides in part: If any person to whom an oath is lawfully administered on any occasion willfully swear falsely on such occasion touching any material matter or thing, he shall be guilty of perjury.
In a prosecution under Va. Code § 18.2-434, the Commonwealth of Virginia must prove beyond a reasonable doubt, inter alia, that defendant willfully swore falsely. If the defendant believes the facts stated by him to be true, he may not properly be said to have willfully sworn falsely to such facts.
If the untrue representation does not touch any material matter or thing in the trial, Va. Code § 18.2-434, the mere falsity of the statement alone will not sustain a perjury conviction. The testimony must have been relevant in the trial of the case, either to the main issue or some collateral issue.
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The Circuit Court of Fairfax (Virginia) convicted defendant of involuntary manslaughter, speeding and reckless driving. Defendant appealed his conviction for involuntary manslaughter.
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In reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence, the judgment of a trial court sitting without a jury is entitled to the same weight as a jury verdict. The trial court’s judgment will not be set aside unless plainly wrong or without evidence to support it. The credibility of a witness and the inferences to be drawn from proven facts are matters solely for the fact finder’s determination. The appellate court does not substitute its judgment for that of the trier of fact. The only relevant inquiry is whether any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Petitioner moved the court to expunge police and court records relating to a sale and/or distribution of marijuana charge as well as a reckless driving charge.
Whether the defendant’s motion to expunge ahs to be granted?
Petitioner moved the court to expunge police and court records relating to a sale and/or distribution of marijuana charge as well as a reckless driving charge. The circuit court granted the motion. Petitioner was charged with the sale and/or distribution of marijuana in 2001 and that charge was subsequently nolle prosequi. The parties agreed that petitioner was entitled to expungement of records relating to the marijuana charge pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-392.2(A) (2011). Further, the continued existence and possible dissemination of information relating to that charge might cause a manifest injustice to petitioner. Accordingly, the motion to expunge all police and court records relating to that charge was granted. With regard to the reckless driving charge, he did not plead guilty to reckless driving, nor did the trial court make a finding of guilt as to the reckless driving charge. He was never found guilty of the charge he sought to have expunged. When he pled guilty to improper driving, he pled to an offense separate and distinct from reckless driving. Thus, expungement was proper. Petitioner’s motion to expunge was granted.
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Roothan v. Commonwealth
While defendant sat in the driver’s seat of a vehicle stopped at a tollbooth, a police officer approached the vehicle, smelled alcohol, and arrested defendant. After defendant, a habitual offender, was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol, the trial court imposed a felony sentence under Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-357(B)(2) because defendant’s drunken driving had allegedly endangered the vehicle’s passengers. Accordingly, defendant sought review, claiming nobody had been endangered and as such, the trial court should have imposed a misdemeanor sentence, pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-357(B)(1). Defendant sought review of a judgment from the Circuit Court of Fairfax County (Virginia)
Whether the trial court properly convicted the defendant for drunken driving?
The court held that even though defendant had been negligent in operating the vehicle, defendant’s intoxication had not been such that it had elevated defendant’s conduct to the level of reckless driving. Thus, the court held the evidence had failed to prove that defendant’s drunken driving had endangered others, as required by Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-357(B)(2). In reversing a judgment which sentenced defendant as a felon after convicting defendant, a habitual offender, of driving under the influence of alcohol, the court held that because defendant’s drunken driving had not been reckless, the evidence had not supported the trial court’s finding of endangerment and its imposition of a felony sentence
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Strickler v. Commonwealth
Defendant was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants and with speeding 55 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour zone. Both charges grew out of the same driving activity. Defendant prepaid the speeding charge and claimed that Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-862 converted his speeding charge to a reckless driving charge In a motion to dismiss, defendant challenged a charge of driving while under the influence of intoxicants in violation of Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-266 after his speeding charge was converted to reckless driving because it violated Va. Code Ann. §19.2-294.1.
Whether the defendant was prevented for dual convictions of driving under the influence and reckless driving under Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-294.1?
This court disagreed holding that defendant’s argument required that he be charged with and convicted of reckless driving. The court stated that speeding was a traffic infraction and reckless driving was a misdemeanor. In addition, the court determined that § 19.2-294.1 only applied if defendant was charged with driving under the influence and reckless driving. The court held that where the evidence supported prosecution under two parallel statutes, the Commonwealth had the right to elect under which statute to proceed
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Jack v. Commonwealth
Appellant was tried by jury in the Circuit Court of Fairfax County (Virginia) and convicted of driving after having been declared an habitual offender in violation of Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-357(B)(1) and driving on a suspended license, second or subsequent offense, in violation of Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-301. Appellant challenged the convictions.
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Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion to strike the driving on a suspended license charge?
Appellant first contended that the trial court erred in denying his motion to strike the driving on a suspended license charge. He could not, he claimed, properly be convicted of driving on a suspended license because, having been declared an habitual offender, his previously suspended operator’s license had been revoked and, thus, was not extant at the time the charged offenses occurred. The appellate court agreed with the Commonwealth that this claim was procedurally barred as appellant failed to raise the defense on the trial level. Appellant also contended that the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury on a defense of others defense. The record did not support appellant’s argument. The defense of others defense applied when a person justifiably used force to defend another person. Here, there was no evidence in the record that appellant used force to protect or defend others. Nor did any of the offenses he was charged with relate to his using force. Appellant merely drove another from the scene of the confrontation. The judgment was affirmed.
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Peter John v. Commonwealth of Virginia
Defendant was convicted of being a habitual offender under the Virginia Habitual Offender Act, which was based on a conviction of driving under the influence and two subsequent convictions of driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license. On appeal, defendant argued that his convictions for driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license arose out of but one act of driving and did not, therefore, result from “separate acts” as contemplated by the Act.
Whether the two 1968 convictions, having resulted from offenses occurring at the same time, arose “out of separate acts” within the meaning of Code § 46.1-387.2 and count as second and third convictions of the defendant, thereby constituting him a habitual offender?
The defendant’s 1968 conviction of driving under the influence was not barred, under Code § 19.1-259, by his contemporaneous conviction of driving on a suspended license, or vice versa. This is so because the defendant could have been convicted of driving under the influence without evidence of the suspension of his driver’s license, and he could have been convicted of driving on a suspended license without evidence of his intoxication. Since it was not the “same act” that gave rise to violation of the two statutes under which the defendant was convicted in 1968, it follows that the two convictions arose” out of separate acts” — one out of the act of driving under the influence and the other out of the act of driving on a suspended license. Therefore, the convictions must be counted individually as second and third convictions, thereby constituting the defendant a habitual offender.
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