Weary of case-by-case skirmishing over discovery, the criminal defense bar has seized the initiative to push for broad change to the rules governing access to prosecutors’ files. Defense lawyers are one step closer to winning wider access to police reports ...

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(AP) — The Virginia Senate will consider legislation backed by Gov. Bob McDonnell to automatically restore nonviolent felons’ voting rights after the measure won a committee’s endorsement Tuesday. The Privileges and Elections Committee voted 10-5 to endorse a resolution calling for ...

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Virginia’s “relief valve” for the wrongly convicted could be opened a notch or two with changes now moving through the General Assembly. Supporters – led by Virginia’s attorney general – say reforms to the state’s “actual innocence” process could make ...

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(AP) — Virginia lawmakers returning to Richmond in January are expected to consider relaxing the stiff legal challenges faced by wrongly convicted inmates seeking exoneration. The state’s so-called “21-day rule” has received heightened scrutiny in the wake of the high-profile ...

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McLEAN (AP) A former death row inmate in Virginia whose conviction was overturned on accusations of misconduct by prosecutors is petitioning a judge for his immediate release. Lawyers for Justin Wolfe filed the motion Nov. 16 in U.S. District Court ...

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Virginia voters yesterday approved a constitutional amendment that will limit the government’s ability to take private property through eminent domain. With 99 percent of all precincts voting, the State Board of Elections reported that the referendum passed with 75 percent ...

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Convicted felons who want to keep their jobs and serve their time one weekend at a time may no longer be able to do so, following a new opinion from Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. A bill passed in 1999 apparently ...

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Sen. Mark Herring, D-Loudoun, has announced that he has filed paperwork to seek the Democratic nomination for Attorney General in 2013. Herring has served in the Senate since 2006; he has practiced law in Leesburg for 22 years. In declaring ...

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia will soon have a new chief deputy attorney general. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s office said late Thursday that Chief Deputy Attorney General Chuck James Jr. is returning to private practice this summer at his old ...

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(AP) — The Virginia Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s demand for documents related to a former University of Virginia climate-change researcher’s work. The hearing is set for Thursday. Cuccinelli is seeking emails and ...

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