Pope v. Commonwealth
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The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court convicting Defendant of trafficking in a controlled substance (heroin) in the first degree and of being a persistent felony offender in the first degree and sentencing him to twenty years in prison, holding that the circuit court did not err in the proceedings below.
Specifically, the Supreme Court held that the circuit court (1) did not err by denying Defendant's pretrial motion to either suppress the evidence from an undercover drug buy or to dismiss the indictment for lack of jurisdiction; and (2) properly admitted into evidence better-quality copies of Snapchat messages than the ones
provided to Defendant in discovery.
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