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There was sufficient evidence to support a conviction for first-degree murder where testimony at trial indicated defendant shot the victim in the back three times while the victim was running away from defendant. Also, defendant was not entitled to call ...

In defendant’s trial for the first-degree murder of his brother-in-law, the trial court did not err in allowing limited cross-examination of defendant’s current brother-in-law concerning the witnesses’ dispute with his wife, defendant’s sister. Defendant was convicted of the first-degree murder ...

Where the mother’s employment and child-care situation have changed since the parties’ agreement in 1992, the court awards the mother an increase in child support from $300 per month to $639.30 per month. The parties’ total combined gross monthly income ...

1994 V.C.C. (VLW 094-8-202) Becon Servs. Corp. v. Hazel Indus. Inc. Attorneys Sanctions Under Va. Statute – Letter As Guarantee Although the Circuit Court sustained defendant’s demurrer asserting that the document signed by the electrical subcontractor on this high school ...

Where plaintiff, a casino in Puerto Rico, is seeking to enforce a Puerto Rican federal district court default judgment against a Virginia resident who visited the hotel and signed a marker for his gambling debts, the default judgment against defendant ...

Where plaintiff parents provided a down payment for their son and his underage wife to purchase a townhouse, and at settlement on the townhouse, the parents requested defendant wife to sign a demand note which they said would enable them ...

Where a liability insurance carrier that failed to notify claimants of its intention to rely on a defense that the insured boat club failed to notify the carrier of claimants’ accident at the boat club until five years after it ...

Where a settlement attorney certified to plaintiff bank that the borrowers owned the property and that the bank’s deed of trust constituted a first lien, but at foreclosure the bank learned that the borrowers only owned a one-half interest in ...

Where this case awarding compensation for tendinitis of the rotator cuffs and subacromial impingement was decided before the Supreme Court decision in Merillat Indus. Inc. v. Parks, 246 Va. 429 (1993), and the parties therefore did not have the opportunity ...

Where plaintiff real estate partnership entered into a rental assistance agreement with the Department of Housing & Urban Development, but after an audit, HUD concluded that, due to excessive charges for rehabilitation costs to the low-income housing renovated by the ...