Justice Stephen R. McCullough was invested as the 106th member of the Supreme Court of Virginia on May 23, at a ceremony featuring his family, his colleagues from the Court of Appeals and past co-workers at the Virginia Attorney General’s ...

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Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has joined three partners to launch “Virginia Self Defense Law.” The Goochland-based firm, which focuses on defending Second Amendment rights, advertises a retainer fee starting at $8.33 a month. The Washington Post reports that ...

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A Democratic state senator is asking a Richmond judge to order disclosure of records that could show whether the state attorney general’s office was involved in preparing materials for the gubernatorial campaign of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Cuccinelli refused to ...

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Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has joined lawyers for Johnathan Montgomery to urge a writ of actual innocence for the man who was imprisoned based on false accusations of sexual assault. In a brief filed with the Court of Appeals of ...

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Richmond Circuit Judge Margaret P. Spencer has accepted a plea agreement calling for restitution but no jail time for the former executive chef at the governor’s mansion. Todd Schneider was charged with embezzling food and supplies from the governor’s mansion, ...

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A recent opinion by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli highlights tension between Virginia prosecutors and defense lawyers over the rules of engagement when a defendant plans to challenge the basis of a traffic stop or a police search in general district ...

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A federal judge has invited Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to weigh in on a coal rights case in Southwest Virginia, even as Cuccinelli continues to defend his office’s actions in a similar lawsuit pitting landowners against large energy companies. ...

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BRISTOL (AP) — Virginia’s inspector general is investigating whether one of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s assistants improperly offered legal advice to two energy companies, including a subsidiary of a corporation that has donated more than $100,000 to Cuccinelli’s gubernatorial campaign. ...

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(AP) A Richmond prosecutor has cleared Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli of criminal wrongdoing for failing to promptly report thousands of dollars in personal gifts he had received years earlier, including a vacation and a catered Thanksgiving dinner. Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney ...

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(AP) — A lawsuit against the state of Virginia by a nutritional supplement maker whose stock comprises Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s total investment portfolio is raising questions about the Republican’s potential conflicts of interest. Henrico-based Star Scientific Inc. sued Virginia’s ...

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