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QUANTICO (AP) A former Naval Academy instructor facing a possible court-martial after a newspaper uncovered new evidence related to his convictions for indecent acts with female midshipmen walked out of his own preliminary hearing Friday. Kevin McDermott, the civilian lawyer ...

(AP) A federal appeals court on Thursday explored the question of who was in charge, the U.S. military or civilian interrogators, when four former Iraqi detainees claim they were tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. An attorney for the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Barbara Milano Keenan

(AP) An attorney for a mentally ill man accused of trying to join al-Qaida-linked fighters in Syria asked a federal appeals court Thursday to overturn a ruling that would allow his client to be forcibly medicated, arguing that neither the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

(AP) Virginia Court of Appeals Judge Stephen McCullough will be sworn in as a justice of the state Supreme Court later this month. McCullough’s investiture will be held in Richmond on May 23 at 3 p.m. Virginia lawmakers voted in ...

(AP) Virginia’s attorney general says violations of federal sex-discrimination laws based on sexual orientation or gender identity also are violations of state law. Democrat Mark Herring issued that opinion Tuesday in response to requests by three state lawmakers. It comes as ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights

(AP) A federal appeals court has revived a Waynesboro man’s lawsuit against two police officers who detained him for a psychiatric evaluation. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday that a judge who dismissed ...

(AP) After losing her spot on the Supreme Court of Virginia in a partisan squabble, former Justice Jane Marum Roush is working as a mediator. The Richmond-based McCammon Group announced Monday that Roush is joining the firm, which employs retired ...

MANASSAS (AP) Lawyers for an Army staff sergeant accused of fatally shooting a police officer working her first shift are fighting prosecutors’ efforts to bring the defendant’s 11-year-old son in front of a grand jury. Authorities say Ronald Hamilton of ...

(AP) A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal of a Virginia death row inmate who killed two people during an escape. William Morva’s attorney argued before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in March that he was improperly ...

HALIFAX (AP) Virginia prosecutors defended a decision Tuesday not to bring charges against police officers who used stun guns multiple times on a black man before his death, saying that although the officers may have acted inappropriately they don’t think they ...