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Key v. Commonwealth

Facts:

Defendant sought review before the court after he was convicted on charges of reckless driving, driving on a suspended operator’s license, and speeding to elude, and he claimed that his rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause of U.S. Const. amend. V and Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-294 were violated when he was again tried in another court on identical charges brought by a different police officer.

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Holdings:

The Virginia Court made the following holding:

• Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-294 reads that if the same act be a violation of two or more statutes, or of two or more ordinances, or of one or more statutes and also one or more ordinances, conviction under one of such statutes or ordinances shall be a bar to a prosecution or proceeding under the other or others. Furthermore, if the same act be a violation of both a state and a federal statute, a prosecution under the federal statute shall be a bar to a prosecution under the state statute.
• One occasion of driving an automobile may give rise to multiple convictions. The test of whether there are separate acts sustaining several offenses is whether the same evidence is required to sustain them. While Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-294.1 prohibits convictions of both driving under the influence and reckless driving growing out of the same act or acts, § 19.2-294 applies only when “the same act” is a violation of two or more statutes.

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