A father’s retirement account will go to his two children, and not to his surviving spouse, because their right to the money vested when the father and mother divorced, the Virginia Court of Appeals said on Jan. 28. When Sandra ...

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A defendant identified as a waiter at a Denny’s restaurant who took a customer’s credit card and used the card to charge $153 in merchandise at a Walmart cannot overturn his conviction of credit card fraud with a claim that ...

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Defendant cannot withdraw his guilty plea to 12 felonies after receiving an active sentence of 38 years, the Court of Appeals says; defendant never proffered a reasonable defense to the charges which included burglary with intent to commit murder, rape ...

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Defendant cannot avoid his bench trial robbery conviction and four-year active sentence by alleging his court appointed attorney promised a three-year sentence, the Court of Appeals says: defendant pleaded guilty in good faith and conceded he could not base a ...

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The Court of Appeals refuses to suppress drug evidence discovered after defendant was stopped for operating a moped without a DOT-approved helmet; the officer’s suspicion that defendant’s helmet did not comply provided probable cause. One day in May, defendant was ...

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A husband could not terminate spousal support payments by refashioning his firing to fit under the parties’ property settlement agreement, the Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled. The PSA signed by William and Elizabeth Strack in 2010 called for the ...

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A medical provider wins its challenge to a carrier’s payment of a fraction of the provider’s cost for treating an Alexandria police officer; the Court of Appeals says the commission erred in concluding the provider was properly enrolled as a ...

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Claimant, a professor of rehabilitation counseling, is not entitled to workers’ comp benefits to treat a neck injury she suffered while attending a physical therapy session after her physician had counseled her that she did not need additional physical therapy; ...

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Although defendant claims the lawyer originally appointed as stand-by counsel was not empowered to seek a continuance, the record supports the trial court finding that the lawyer represented defendant and the period of the continuance does not count under the ...

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A defendant who was arrested in Spotsylvania County for violating parole, and who escaped and ran to a car, directing the passenger to put the car in gear and keep driving, and who was arrested with the passenger in Caroline ...

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