Phillip Deangelo Harris, Jr. v. Commonwealth

• Court: Court of Appeals of Virginia
• Decided: April 22, 1997
• Docket: 1952952
• Status: Published

Opinion

Tuesday 22nd

April, 1997.

Phillip Deangelo Harris, Jr., Appellant,

against Record No. 1952-95-2 Circuit Court No. F-95-2158

Commonwealth of Virginia, Appellee.

Upon a Rehearing En Banc

Before Judges Benton, Coleman, Willis, Elder, Bray, Fitzpatrick, Annunziata and Overton

Patricia P. Nagel, Assistant Public Defender (David J. Johnson, Public Defender, on brief), for appellant.

Margaret Ann B. Walker, Assistant Attorney General (James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

In Harris v. Commonwealth, 23 Va. App. 311, 477 S.E.2d 1

(1996), a majority of a panel of the Court reversed the judgment of

the trial court. The Commonwealth's petition for rehearing en banc was granted and heard on March 20, 1997. For the reasons stated in

the panel's majority opinion, the majority reverses the decision of

the trial court. Accordingly, the stay of this Court's October 15,

1996 mandate is lifted.

Judges Willis, Fitzpatrick and Overton would affirm the

judgment of the trial court for the reasons stated in the dissenting

opinion of the original panel decision. This order shall be published and certified to the trial

court.

A Copy,

Teste:

Cynthia L. McCoy, Clerk

By:

Deputy Clerk