Opinion ID: 1385434
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Heading: Evidence of Subsequent Crimes

Text: Joseph argues that the court erred in admitting evidence of his convictions for the November 3, 1992, abduction and attempted robbery, a week after Anderson's robbery and murder. Joseph claims that such evidence is inadmissible because Code § 19.2-264.4(C) provides only for a consideration of the prior history of the defendant in determining a defendant's future dangerousness. In our opinion, this language does not exclude such evidence. Indeed, in Saunders v. Commonwealth, 242 Va. 107, 117-19, 406 S.E.2d 39, 45-46, cert. denied, 502 U.S. 944, 112 S.Ct. 386, 116 L.Ed.2d 337 (1991), we held that evidence of a defendant's misconduct in jail while awaiting his sentencing for capital murder could be considered by the capital murder jury as a part of his prior history under Code § 19.2-264.4(C). Accordingly, the trial court correctly admitted evidence of Joseph's later crimes.