The Virginia Court of Appeals tossed a Hopewell woman’s request to reverse an accessory-to-murder conviction, claiming the evidence presented at trial and subsequent later evidence was valid enough to warrant the conviction.
In an opinion released Tuesday, Sept. 1, a three-judge panel affirmed the guilty verdict for Jay’meisha Bankston-Burke related to a 2023 shooting in which the passenger of a vehicle was hit by gunfire from a passing vehicle at the intersection of Winston Churchill Drive and Liberty Avenue in northeast Hopewell.
The victim was identified as 21-year-old Marciano Thorne. Officers found him unconscious in the 1100 block of High Avenue several blocks from where he had been shot four times…