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The Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority defeated a challenge to its use of toll funds for metro services to Dulles airport. Background Appellants here have raised a variety of constitutional and statutory challenges to Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority’s ability to use ...

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

Because the district court would have imposed the same sentence on an undocumented immigrant convicted of sexual battery and illegal reentry, the error made in the process was harmless. Background Macias-Maldonado illegally entered the United States in 2006. In January ...

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

A man sentenced to 132 months in prison for possession and distribution of heroin failed to get his conviction overturned. Background A jury convicted Tacarlos Miller of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and distribution of ...

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

Law enforcement officers who witnessed a drug transaction acted in good faith when they sought historical cell phone site location data based on the law at the time, and defendant’s conviction is affirmed. Background After Alexandria police detectives witnessed appellant ...

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

Where an inmate was wearing jeans at the time of a random, unannounced search, and officers found a controlled substance in the jeans, he possessed the controlled substance and his conviction is affirmed. Background On March 23, 2016, appellant and ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Jean Harrison Clements Virginia Court of Appeals

A man charged with leaving three minor children alone at a shopping center failed to show a justifiable reason for his action, and his conviction for contributing to the delinquency of a minor by abuse or neglect is affirmed. Background ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals

Although the judge entered a general finding that the defendant stole jewelry and silver, the payout by the insurance company was sufficient to support a $58,000 restitution award. Background In December of 2014, the victim hired appellant to help around ...

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

The parents’ failure to understand how their actions affected their children was the basis for termination of their rights, the court said in affirming that finding, adding that any language barrier had nothing to do with the result. Background Ambrosia ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

A fourth-grade teacher’s fall from a school bus during a summer trip to visit students entitled her to workers’ compensation. Background Claimant worked for employer as a fourth-grade teacher. In August 2016, while visiting incoming students at daycare centers and ...

Tagged with: Justice Charles S. Russell Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

A woman who washed her father’s asbestos-laden clothes after he returned home after working in a shipyard may sue the shipyard for asbestos exposure. Background Plaintiff alleges that from approximately 1942 to 1977, Wanda Quisenberry’s father, Bennie Plessinger, was employed ...

Tagged with: Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. Negligence Supreme Court of Virginia