Virginia high court to weigh cameras in courtrooms
By Peter Vieth
Published: April 26, 2013
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Judge Edward Hogshire, Supreme Court of Virginia News, Technology
The Supreme Court of Virginia has agreed to look at whether judges have an unfettered right to reject news cameras in their courtrooms, or whether they need a good reason to block access. The issue comes in the appeal arising from the emotion-laden trial of George Huguely V, the University of Virginia student convicted last [...]
High court reinstates full verdict in ‘Lester’ 
By Peter Vieth
Published: January 10, 2013
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Judge Edward Hogshire, Justice Cleo E. Powell, Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Supreme Court of Virginia News, Wrongful Death
The Supreme Court of Virginia has reinstated the full jury verdict of $6,227,000 on Isaiah Lester’s wrongful death claim based on the loss of his wife in a car accident in 2007. The court’s ruling closes the book on a high-profile, high-dollar personal-injury case in Albemarle County. The trial judge had reduced the jury’s award [...]
High court hears record wrongful death appeal
By Deborah Elkins
Published: October 31, 2012
Tags: Albemarle County Circuit Court, Judge Edward Hogshire, Justice Cleo E. Powell, Justice Donald W. Lemons, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Sanctions, Social Media, Supreme Court of Virginia News
A man should not keep a jury award for his wife’s death when he and his lawyer conspired to remove photos from his Facebook page and then lied about it to the court, a defense lawyer told the Supreme Court of Virginia on Oct. 30. Probing for prejudice the defendant might have suffered, several justices [...]
No Brady Hearing on Planned Civil Suit
By Deborah Elkins
Published: September 10, 2012
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Criminal, Judge Edward Hogshire, Virginia Circuit Courts
A Charlottesville Circuit Court denies defendant George Huguely V’s motion for an evidentiary hearing on his claim that the commonwealth violated Brady v. Maryland by withholding information about plans by the family of the victim, Huguely’s fellow UVa student and former girlfriend, to file a civil suit for wrongful death. The defense is seeking a [...]
Former U.Va. athlete gets 23 years for slaying ex
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: September 10, 2012
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Judge Edward Hogshire
CHARLOTTESVILLE — A former University of Virginia lacrosse player who killed his ex-girlfriend in a drunken rage received a 23-year prison sentence Aug. 30 in a case that forever changed the school’s attitudes toward relationship violence and made it easier for abuse victims in the state to obtain restraining orders. George W. Huguely V had [...]
No ‘Equitable Indemnification’ in Towing Case
By Deborah Elkins
Published: July 30, 2012
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Judge Edward Hogshire, Negligence, Virginia Circuit Courts
In a follow-up to this court’s decision that plaintiff wrecker service must indemnify the city for a $200,000 loss for fire damage to a city bus the wrecker service was towing, a Charlottesville Circuit Court says the wrecker service does not have a claim for equitable indemnification against the two defendants who prepared the bus [...]
‘Corrosion’ exclusion does not bar coverage
By Deborah Elkins
Published: July 26, 2012
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Insurance, Judge Edward Hogshire, Virginia Circuit Courts
A Charlottesville Circuit Court says an ice rink has insurance coverage for damages from the failure of the heat exchanger in the ice rink’s water heating system, despite the carrier’s denial of coverage on the ground that the heat exchanger failed due to corrosion, an excluded cause of loss under the policy. The pertinent portion [...]
Retired Husband Wins Spousal Support
By Deborah Elkins
Published: June 11, 2012
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Domestic Relations, Judge Edward Hogshire, Virginia Circuit Courts
A couple married for 23 years, with two emancipated children, is granted a no-fault divorce, and the 53-year-old wife, who earns monthly gross income of $11,833, is ordered by the Charlottesville Circuit Court to pay the 69-year-old husband, who is retired, $1,800 in monthly spousal support. The parties’ Nelson County real estate is mountainous, difficult [...]
It’s just Google! Keeping jurors offline to stay in line
By Deborah Elkins
Published: May 18, 2012
Tags: Judge Edward Hogshire, Judge Pamela S. Baskervill, Social Media, Technology
NORFOLK – Jurors who have a hard time putting their Internet habit on hold during jury service need strong guidance from trial judges, a jury research expert says. In Virginia courtrooms and around the country, jurors are yielding to the impulse to “just Google it” when they have a question. A once-or-twice warning not to [...]
Single Photo ID Not too Suggestive
By Deborah Elkins
Published: May 1, 2012
Tags: Charlottesville Circuit Court, Criminal, Judge Edward Hogshire, Virginia Circuit Courts
A Charlottesville Circuit Court denies defendant’s motion to suppress an out-of-court identification of him by the alleged victim as the intruder into the victim’s home, following discovery of a photo identification card bearing defendant’s picture outside near the driveway to the victim’s home. Defendant alleges the single photograph procedure used by the officer was unduly [...]
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