{"id":404,"date":"2004-04-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/judicial-profiles\/2004\/04\/28\/melesco-david-a\/"},"modified":"2013-08-30T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T18:18:46","slug":"melesco-david-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/judicial-profiles\/melesco-david-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Melesco, David A."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"jp\">\n<div class=\"portrait\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/judicial-profiles\/wp-content\/plugins\/dmc-judicial-profiles\/\/judge_blank.jpg\" alt=\"Melesco\" class=\"portrait\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"jp_contact\">\n<div class=\"vcard\"><span class=\"fn n\" style=\"display:none\"><span class=\"given-name\">David<\/span> <abbr class=\"additional-name\">A.<\/abbr> <span class=\"family-name\">Melesco<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Chief Judge<\/p>\n<p class=\"org\">VA Circuit Court<\/p>\n<p class=\"adr\"><span class=\"street-address\">Danville Circuit Court<br \/>P. O. Box 3300\/ 401 Patton Street<br \/><\/span><span class=\"locality\">Danville<\/span>, <span class=\"region\">VA<\/span> <span class=\"postal-code\">24543<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Phone: <span class=\"tel\"><a href=\"tel:434-799-5168\">434-799-5168<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tel\"><span class=\"type\">Fax<\/span>: <span class=\"value\">434-799-6502<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" \/>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\tjQuery(document).ready(function($){\tjQuery(\"ul.tabs-nav\").tabs(\"> .pane\"); }); <\/script>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"post-tabs\">\n\t\t<ul class=\"tabs-nav\"><li>Reported Decisions<\/li><li>Other Links<\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t<div class=\"pane\">\n\t\t\n<div id=\"jp_decisions\" class=\"widget jp-widget\">\n<div class=\"widget-container\">\n<h5>Opinions Summarized in Lawyers Weekly<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/?p=62958\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"homepagebulletlink\" >Plaintiff Gets Hospital Incident Report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Decisions Reviewed on Appeal<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/?p=74411\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"homepagebulletlink\" >Suppression Order Reversed in Meth-Lab Case<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/?p=63999\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"homepagebulletlink\" >Beer-Can DNA Connection to Stolen Vehicle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/?p=46599\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"homepagebulletlink\" >Search &amp; Seizure &#8211; Probation Revocation &#8211; Drug Conviction Reversal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"pane\">\n\t\t\n<div id=\"jp_other\" class=\"widget jp-widget\">\n<div class=\"widget-container\">\n<h5>Articles about the judge, quoting the judge, etc.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/?p=91725\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"homepagebulletlink\" >Virginia Right to Farm Act protects orchard hedgerow &#8211; Defense Verdict<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/?p=67406\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"homepagebulletlink\" >Man shot and killed by police while fleeing pot bust &#8211; $1,400,000 Verdict<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/?p=66756\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"homepagebulletlink\" >Family of man killed by deputy wins $1.4M<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/?p=62960\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"homepagebulletlink\" >Plaintiff gets hospital report, under old or new privilege statute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/?p=61608\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"homepagebulletlink\" >Passenger should have known driver was drunk, defense alleges &#8211; $125,000 Verdict<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/?p=427\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"homepagebulletlink\" >Character Evidence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/?p=40054\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"homepagebulletlink\" >Kemler, Andrews Both Return To Bench<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David A. 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Box 3300\/ 401 Patton StreetDanville, VA 24543 Phone: 434-799-5168 Fax: 434-799-6502 Reported DecisionsOther Links Opinions Summarized in Lawyers Weekly Plaintiff Gets Hospital Incident Report Decisions Reviewed on Appeal Suppression Order Reversed in Meth-Lab Case Beer-Can DNA Connection to Stolen Vehicle Search &amp; Seizure &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judicial-profiles","category-virginia-circuit-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/judicial-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/judicial-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/judicial-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/judicial-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/judicial-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/judicial-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/judicial-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/judicial-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valawyersweekly.com\/judicial-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}