Posted in Criminal Cases, Writs Granted on Dec 28th, 2011
The Supreme Court of Virginia has granted review in the case of Mario Turner, the defendant convicted with his former defense lawyer’s testimony. Turner’s case surprised some criminal defense lawyers last July, when the Virginia Court of Appeals approved the use of the lawyer’s testimony against his former client. In Turner’s malicious wounding trial in [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 16th, 2011
It’s easy to lose track of the myriad ways Virginia federal and state courts have rejected homeowner challenges to foreclosures over the past year. A defaulting homeowner’s claim arising from a $1.7 million note on a home in Clifton went down in defeat today when the Supreme Court of Virginia upheld a Fairfax Circuit Court’s [...]
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A property owner who signed an “Asset and Authorization Card” to allow a contractor to remove storm-damaged trees was not bound by a written contract, the Supreme Court of Virginia says. In a Dec. 9 unpublished order in Hall & Wilson Construction Inc. v. Bowers, No. 101566, the high court upheld a Chesterfield County Circuit [...]
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