Criminal – A&B – Officer Assault – Accidental Contact 
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Published: April 26, 2010
Tags: Criminal, Judge Sam W. Coleman III, Virginia Court of Appeals
Although an inmate contended he only touched a correctional officer in order to retrieve his personal property, the officer testified the inmate grabbed her wrist and then shoved her left shoulder with his right side, and the Court of Appeals affirms the inmate’s conviction for assault and battery of an officer in violation of Va. ...
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