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Dear Editor: I am officially, indefinitely on the picket line. I will not take another state court-appointed case until the politicians and appellate judges pay me a fair compensation for court-appointed criminal defense work. I am proud to be a ...

Dear Editor: The newspapers are filled with news of controversies in the General Assembly over reappointment of Virginia judges. What our representatives should be arguing over instead is submission of a constitutional amendment to scrap the entire term-appointed system in ...

Dear Editor: The Jan. 27, 1997, issue of Lawyers Weekly USA reported that the U.S. Sentencing Commission is proposing three possible guidelines in order for a sentencing judge to consider prior charges for which the defendant was acquitted. Apparently, the ...

Lawyer blasts VSB’s “regrets” to inmate Dear Editor: Recently I received a “Personal & Confidential” letter from the Virginia State Bar in regard to an inmate complaining that I had never sent him his file. The letter was signed by ...

Dear Editor: Thank you for your article in the Oct. 21, 1996 edition of Virginia Lawyers Weekly [“Court-appointed lawyers protest”]. I believe it was instrumental in influencing the Board of Directors of the Virginia College of Criminal Defense Attorneys in ...

Dear Editor: The case of resigned Circuit Court Judge Luther C. Edmonds has been the subject of several articles in the Norfolk newspaper, as well as one Oct. 7 in Virginia Lawyers Weekly. With no knowledge of the Edmonds case, ...

Dear Editor: Your Sept. 9, 1996 edition carried the letter from Steven Rosenfield of Charlottesville and his decision not to accept state court-appointed cases during the month of November. The reasons stated reflect many concerns which I have had for ...