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Common-law abatement no longer good law | Virginia Lawyers Weekly

Where a statute repealing Code § 18.2-250.1 (possession of marijuana) was enacted before appellant's conviction, the common-law rule of abatement does not void his conviction. Virginia's saving statute, Code § 1-239, controls the result in this case. The conviction is affirmed. Under Code § 1-239, “when the General Assembly explicitly and unambiguously repeals a statute, . ....

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