No. 24-650

Robert Lee Webb v. Virginia

Lower Court: Virginia
Docketed: 2024-12-16
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: circumstantial-evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction meaningful-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error
Latest Conference: 2025-02-21
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. The Trial Court's error in refusing to give the Virginia
Model Jury Instruction on Circumstantial Evidence
violated the Appellant's 6th and 14th Amendment
rights to a jury trial by failing to allow the Appellant
an opportunity to present a meaningful defense since
the jury instruction was a Model Jury Instruction
and was directly related to evidence and issues in the
case and was a proper statement of the law, and the
Virginia Court of Appeals and the Virginia Supreme
Court also erred by their holding regarding each point
that they cited in support of their decision to affirm
the Trial Court's decision and deny the giving of the
instruction.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the trial court's refusal to give a Virginia Model Jury Instruction on Circumstantial Evidence violated the appellant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair jury trial

Docket Entries

2025-02-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-01-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
2024-12-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 15, 2025)

Attorneys

Robert Lee Webb
Joseph Abraham SanzoneSanzone & Baker, LLP., Petitioner