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Monthly Archive for July, 2010

(access required)">Supreme Court upholds attorney’s suspension (access required)

Posted in Attorneys, Unpublished Orders on Jul 30th, 2010

In an unpublished order, the Supreme Court of Virginia today upholds the 12-month suspension of Norfolk lawyer Curtis Tyrone Brown’s license to practice law. A three-judge panel concluded that Brown made a false statement to a judge and disrupted a judicial proceeding. Brown misrepresented to a Chesapeake Circuit Court judge in front of a jury [...]

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(access required)">What are you packing? (access required)

Posted in Criminal Cases, Writs Granted on Jul 13th, 2010

The Supreme Court of Virginia is taking aim at the issue of whether a robber can be convicted of use of a firearm without evidence of a real gun. In March, the Court of Appeals overruled a 1995 decision holding that an object the victim reasonably believed to be a firearm could never constitute a [...]

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