John Allen Muhammad v. Commonwealth of Virginia.

Summary

The court affirmed Muhammad's convictions for two capital murders, conspiracy, firearm use, and the resulting death sentences. It held that the evidence supported treating Muhammad as an immediate perpetrator in the sniper-team murder of Dean Meyers and independently established that he directed or ordered the killing under the terrorism statute. The court also rejected challenges involving the indictments, terrorism statute, self-representation, sentencing evidence, discovery, jury selection, and evidentiary rulings, while deeming numerous assignments waived for inadequate briefing or lack of preservation. Justice Kinser concurred to emphasize the circumstantial evidence supporting the majority's immediate-perpetrator analysis, while Justice Agee dissented in part and would have reversed the capital-murder conviction under the multiple-homicide theory.