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Assuming without deciding that the Court of Appeals erred by ruling that appellant received adequate email notice that the commonwealth intended to introduce a four-year-old child’s forensic interview at trial, any error was harmless. Background Appellant Desoto was indicted on ...

Tagged with: Criminal Supreme Court of Virginia

Where there was a disparity of over 200 months between the defendant’s 384-month sentence for conduct associated with armed robberies and a similarly situated inmate whose sentences were not stacked, and the defendant has taken several rehabilitative steps since incarceration, ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the defendant was overseas on a Navy base when he used the internet to coerce a Virginia-based minor into sexual activity, his extraterritorially argument was rejected because the focus of the conduct and the child victim was in the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Judge Pamela A. Harris

Where the Turkish government communicated instructions through a Turkish businessman to an executive at the Flynn Intel Group who followed those instructions, his convictions for acting as an unregistered foreign agent and conspiring to do so were reinstated. Background A ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Judge James A. Wynn Jr.

The trial court incorrectly suppressed evidence seized from appellant’s home during the execution of a search warrant because, after finding the warrant deficient, the court should have admitted the evidence under the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule. Overview ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Richard Y. AtLee Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

There was sufficient circumstantial evidence from which the trial court could conclude that appellant was the person who killed the victim. In the trial court Addison was charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death of Chalkley. Chalkley’s body, ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge William G. Petty Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the defendant was deported to Romania by Immigration and Customs Enforcemen while on pretrial release, and there is no active arrest warrant that would allow extradition, the fraud indictment against her was dismissed. While she argued for dismissal with ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a defendant contracted COVID-19 while in prison, because he had been arrested while attempting to flee the United States and board a flight to Ireland, his motion for pretrial release was denied. Background On Dec. 17, 2019, Marius Catalui ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a defendant experienced an “uncommonly lengthy” delay in his trial that made it harder to communicate with his attorneys and resulted in his heightened anxiety and concern due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he could not show that his case ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a defendant convicted for sex trafficking minors and using interstate facilities to promote an enterprise involving a prostitution offense claimed on appeal that motions to suppress should have been granted, expert testimony was improperly allowed and evidentiary rulings were ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal