High court: More criminal cases, more orders 
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Published: July 30, 2010
Tags: Judge Jane Marum Roush, Supreme Court of Virginia News
HOT SPRINGS— Civil litigators, feeling left out when you look at the docket for the Supreme Court of Virginia? There may be a reason.
The Supreme Court is taking more criminal cases than it used to, and the court is deciding more appeals by unpublished order.
Those are among the observations of Fairfax Circuit Judge Jane Marum ...
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