while urging that the prosecution should go forward can work a constitutional deprivation.”), cert. denied, 494 U.S. 1081, 110 S.Ct. 1812, 108 L.Ed.2d 942 (1990). 46 . Even if issue preclusion were imposed here, it of course would not prevent Snyder from relying on evidence relevant to the earlier rulings to prove a fact other than those conclusively resolved in the prior proceedings. See Simon v. Commonwealth, 220 Va. 412, 258 S.E.2d 567, 572 (1979); Dorn v. Commonwealth, 3 Va.App. 110, 348 S.E.2d 412, 415 (1986). 47 .Virginia law controls here because, in § 1983 proceedings, a prior judgment has the same pre-clusive effect it would have in the courts of the state that issued the judgment. 28 U.S.C. § 1738; Allen v. McCurry, 449 U.S. 90, 96, 101 S.Ct. 411, 415, 66 L.Ed.2d 308 (1980) (<HOLDING>). 48 . Defendants were not parties to Snyder’s
holding that collateral estoppel applies to  1983 claims holding collateral estoppel elements met considering changed circumstances in the context of an exception to the general rule of collateral estoppel holding that the state law of collateral estoppel applies in civil rights actions brought under 42 usc  1983 holding that collateral estoppel applies only where the antecedent judgment was a final judgment holding that the debtor has the burden of showing that collateral estoppel applies