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A defendant working as a confidential infor­mant with an Alexandria detective, who made an unauthorized sale of cocaine to a buyer who unknowingly purchased the drug for another undercover detective on the same narcotics/ vice squad, has his conviction for ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Even if an officer’s testimony about defen­dant’s receipt of a high volume of text mes­sages and phone calls – after defendant was discovered to have only 51 of 219 oxycodone and methadone pills about an hour after he picked up ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Randolph A. Beales Virginia Court of Appeals

Although the government, in its retrial of a home-building company’s controller for ac­counting fraud, dropped earlier charges due to the unreliability of a computer forensics expert’s estimation of the number of emails defendant had deleted from the company’s system, the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Judge Roger L. Gregory

In sentencing defendant, a Salvadoran native, for illegal re-entry into the U.S., the district court did not err in determining that defendant’s prior Maryland conviction of third-degree sexual offense for sexually as­saulting his estranged wife was a “crime of violence”; ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

The Court of Appeals upholds a trial court’s suppression orders, affirming the trial court ruling that pedestrians are not required by Va. Code § 46.2-923 to cross a highway at an intersection wherever pos­sible. Defendants were stopped when they allegedly ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Even though the court withheld a find­ing of guilt, a juvenile defendant who pled guilty to misdemeanor computer harass­ment in violation of Va. Code § 18.2-152.7:1 was on probation at the time she engaged in behavior that allegedly violated her ...

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

A defendant who claimed he “made up” the social security number – which belonged to a Loudoun County resident – that defendant used to obtain a mortgage loan for his Silver Spring, Md. home can be convicted of identity theft ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Wesley G. Russell Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

A defendant who stole his ex-girl­friend’s purse with her credit cards can be convicted of credit card theft under Va. Code § 18.2-192 even though the commonwealth did not charge or prove that he had the specific intent to use ...

Tagged with: Criminal Justice Charles S. Russell Supreme Court of Virginia

The Supreme Court of Virginia says a deputy’s testimony about confronting one suspect in a basement when the officer was exposed to a caustic bear deterrent did not support an inference that defendant, who was not discovered in the basement ...

Tagged with: Criminal Justice Elizabeth B. Lacy Supreme Court of Virginia

In this patent infringement suit, a Richmond U.S. District Court grants a mistrial because plaintiff failed to dis­close all of the materials relied upon by its expert in his reverse engineering reports, in violation of the Stipulated Discovery Order; the ...

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