The VLW Blog

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 time at [...]

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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 after he [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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), a [...]

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