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Robert Lee Webb v. Virginia
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Virginia, No. 240495 · judgment September 10, 2024
Certiorari denied · February 24, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
- 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.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Joseph Abraham Sanzone
Sanzone & Baker, LLP.
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Feb 24 2025Petition DENIED.
- Jan 29 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
- Dec 09 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 15, 2025)