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Collateral effects

Not all states allow a prior court-martial conviction into evidence.  But as the decision in Oliver v. Commonwealth, 60 S.E. 2d 567 (2005), shows, the Commonwealth of Virginia considers a prior special court-martial conviction admissible in sentencing. In principle, we accept that certain "wholly unconstitutional" convictions can be collaterally attacked…

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