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		<title>Civil death penalty imposed&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A doctor who allegedly gave false sworn testimony in a medical malpractice case has lost his right to deny liability, as a Virginia trial judge invoked the court’s inherent authority to punish “fraud on the court.” Such a harsh penalty by a Virginia judge is unusual if not unique, but the circumstances that drove the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abuse Conviction for Group-Home President&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president of a corporation that operated a group home for incapacitated adults is guilty of felonious abuse and neglect of a resident who suffered second- and third-degree burns from scalding bath water, as defendant ordered recall of the van that was taking the victim to the hospital and instead required his treatment by group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conviction stands in group home death&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 11:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turning to civil law for a proximate cause standard, a circuit judge has upheld a jury’s conviction of a group home operator for the death from neglect of a disabled burn victim. Richard C. Wagoner Jr. of Martinsville ordered that a resident with obvious severe burns should be treated at his group home rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claim for Accounting ‘Negligence’ Dismissed&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plaintiff trusts who are suing defendant CPA for $25 million for allegedly providing “negligent tax advice, preparation of tax returns and relating accounting services” over a 12-year period are claiming accounting malpractice, and a Martinsville Circuit Court says accounting malpractice, like legal malpractice, is a contract claim, not a tort claim. It is well settled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Consent’ Invalid After Police Accusation&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Martinsville Circuit Court suppresses drug evidence found in the car of a woman whose husband, a former police informant, alerted police who stopped the car; in view of the police accusation that the woman was transporting illegal drugs in her vehicle, no reasonable person in the woman’s position would have felt free to withhold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court Suppresses Teenager’s Statement on ‘Rape’&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An investigator who approached a 17-year-old defendant “dozing” in a holding cell and told him a young woman had accused him of rape, engaged in the functional equivalent of interrogation, and a Martinsville Circuit Court suppresses the teenager’s statement that it was consensual sex, which led to a rape charge. An investigator approached the 17-year [...]]]></description>
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