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A former Giles County Circuit Court clerk is on trial in Roanoke accused of running a Ponzi scheme to defraud investors of millions of dollars.  As reported by The Roanoke Times, however, his attorney claims Ted James Johnson Jr. was ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Fraud

Jury consultants are urging trial lawyers to use tools available on the Internet to do their juror research. A note of thanks to our colleagues at The Daily Record, who posted a piece in the Los Angeles Times. The L.A. reporter ...

Charles H. Whitebread, the former University of Virginia law professor who maintained his ties to the state through bar review courses and lectures long after he moved to the University of Southern California law school, has died. He was 65. Mr. ...

The Senate has confirmed Alexandria attorney Anthony Trenga’s nomination to a federal judgeship in the Eastern District of Virginia, reports the Associated Press. Trenga was one of five lawyers Senators Jim Webb and John Warner recommended for the federal bench ...

Sometimes state agents and federal revenooers bust up stills making illegal moonshine. Sometimes, vice squads raid crack parlors, brothels and other houses of ill repute. In Kentucky, they’ve gone to court to crack down on illegal online gambling. Yep, the ...

The FBI has released a cryptic statement indicating that the agency has a lead on a vehicle possibly connected to the five-year-old Short family murder case in Henry County.  WSLS reports that the FBI is not adding much in the ...

Sparked by two recent accounts of intimidation, some Shenandoah Valley legislators are considering whether the display of a hangman’s noose should be categorized as a hate crime in the Virginia code. According to this account in the Daily News Record, ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights

Five Virginia state police chaplains reportedly have resigned in protest over a directive that says the chaplains must use only non-denominational prayers in public events. According to this report from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the chaplains have been told that their ...

Tagged with: First Amendment

Virginia Sen. Jim Webb is quoted in a press release about a poll conducted by an organization that opposes mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses. Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) says the poll shows that 59 percent of Americans are ...

Virginia Sen. Jim Webb is quoted in a press release about a poll conducted by an organization that opposes mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses. Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) says the poll shows that 59 percent of Americans are ...