Lawrence v. Com., 931539
| Decision Date | 15 April 1994 |
| Docket Number | No. 931539,931539 |
| Citation | 443 S.E.2d 160,247 Va. 339 |
| Parties | Albert Justin LAWRENCE v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia. Record |
| Court | Virginia Supreme Court |
From the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
Elizabeth Dashiell Scher (Morchower, Luxton and Whaley, on brief), for appellant.
Margaret Ann B. Walker, Asst. Atty. Gen. (James S. Gilmore, III, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.
Present: All the Justices.
In this case, we awarded appellant an appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeals holding that the trial court did not err in ruling (1) that the appellant consented to a search of his person for the purpose of determining whether he possessed any illegal narcotics, and (2) that he did not withdraw that consent during the course of the search. Lawrence v. Commonwealth, 17 Va.App. 140, 435 S.E.2d 591 (1993).
We have considered the questions, and for the reasons stated in the opinion of the Court of Appeals, we will affirm the judgment below.
Affirmed.
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