Kimberly O. Janis and Thomas Janis v. Commonwealth of Virginia
Record No. 0271-95-2
Court of Appeals of Virginia
December 31, 1996
November 26, 1996
Circuit Court Nos. F94-77 and F94-78
Before Chief Judge Moon, Judges Baker, Benton, Coleman, Willis, Elder, Bray, Fitzpatrick, Annunziata and Overton
Charles R. Watson for appellants.
Marla Graff Decker, Assistant Attorney General (James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.
In Janis v. Commonwealth, 22 Va. App. 646, 650-51, 472 S.E.2d 649, 651 (1996), a majority of a panel of the Court reversed and remanded the convictions of Kimberly O. Janis and Thomas Janis. A dissenting opinion was filed in the panel decision. The Commonwealth‘s petition for rehearing en banc was granted and heard on November 26, 1996. For the reasons stated in the panel‘s majority opinion, the convictions are reversed, the matters are remanded to the Circuit Court of Dinwiddie County and, accordingly, the stay of this Court‘s July 9, 1996 mandate is lifted.
Chief Judge Moon, Judges Baker, Coleman and Fitzpatrick would affirm the judgment of the trial court for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion of the original panel decision.
A Copy,
Teste:
Cynthia L. McCoy, Clerk
By:
Deputy Clerk
