A man facing a life sentence for the murder of his wife has been hit with a record-breaking civil verdict arising from the same crime. The $15 million verdict appears to be the largest wrongful death award handed down by a Virginia jury. Peter C. Burnett and Jonathan B. Slater of Leesburg represented the family [...]
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Verdict is $15 million for wrongful death of wife
February 15th, 2012 · Comments Off · Loudoun County, verdicts and settlements
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Who shot Todd Sanders? No answer yet
December 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Loudoun County
Ten months after someone shot and injured Leesburg lawyer Todd Sanders as he worked late in his office, police say they’re still looking for the assailant. A spokesman for the Leesburg police department said the investigation of the February incident is “very much ongoing.” Sanders is a former Fairfax prosecutor who also worked for a [...]
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School district will pay assistant principal’s legal fees
June 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · Loudoun County, Schools
The Loudoun County school board will cover the legal bills for a high school administrator who was acquitted of possession of child pornography. Ting-Yi Oei of Reston, an assistant principal at Freedom High School, racked up legal bills of $167,621 over the course almost a year, reports The Washington Post. Oei was arrested last August [...]
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Con-woman convicted in Loudoun County ‘Unsolved Mystery’
March 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Loudoun County
Justice is finally served for a Maryland man whose body was found in Loudoun County thirteen years ago. Nancy Jean Siegel, a woman who allegedly spent much of her life stealing and spending other people’s money, has been convicted of murder in a Baltimore courtroom. A U.S. District Court jury found Siegel guilty on 20 [...]
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Northern Virginia Senate candidate indicted
May 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off · Elections, Loudoun County
A Middleburg man running for the Republican nomination for a state Senate seat has been indicted in Loudoun County on charges of election fraud and perjury. The Washington Post reports that the indictments were made public today, three weeks before voters go to the polls. Mark Tate, a restaurateur and the former vice mayor of [...]
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Discovery: voice-mail recording admissible
April 18th, 2007 · Comments Off · Discovery, Loudoun County
What happens when a speaker leaves a voice-mail message for an attorney, whose recording device doesn’t shut off? The message left on the machine can come into evidence in a real estate case, according to Loudoun County Circuit Judge Thomas D. Horne. In Pacific Century Development & Realty Inc. v. Wheatland Farms LLC (VLW 005-8-197), [...]
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