The Virginia Department of Forensic Sciences will host a series of free courses on DNA for law professionals this Fall in four locations across the state. Representatives from the DFS said they are offering the courses in an effort to ...

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Plaintiff underwent sigmoid resection surgery by defendant surgeon for acute diverticulitis. Plaintiff alleged that the defendant negligently transected her ureter, the urinary duct between the kidney and bladder. Plaintiff’s experts opined that the defendant should have identified, and if necessary, ...

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The discovery that a former Richmond police officer may have lied to obtain search warrants for drug suspects has helped undo convictions for 11 criminal defendants. But one man who pleaded no contest in 2010 to marijuana possession with intent ...

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A woman injured in a fall as she left a Richmond law firm has won a $60,000 jury verdict against the owner of the building in the city’s historic Shockoe Slip. Even though a judge blocked the plaintiff from use ...

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Plaintiff alleged in a complaint filed pursuant to the Virginia Torts Claims Act that a report published online by a state agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia in March 2013 defamed her. The jury found that the defendant had committed ...

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In plaintiff’s suit for injuries suffered when she tripped and fell over a single step at the entrance to a commercial property, the Richmond Circuit Court excludes expert opinions from a human factors practitioner and a structural engineer as invading ...

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The client’s tale of woe begins with a traffic stop near a college campus. A driver had too much to drink, or an officer discovered illegal drugs. But wait, the client says. The traffic stop was made by a campus ...

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A Richmond Circuit judge has dismissed a second round of indictments against a man accused of robbery and use of a firearm. The commonwealth had nol prossed the charges earlier, based on a belief that a jury panel was biased ...

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