The Court of Appeals reverses a special education teacher’s assault and battery conviction for grabbing an 11-year-old special needs student’s wrists and pulling her toward a school bus stop to retrieve a coat; the trial court erred in interpreting a ...

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A defendant who was stopped for driving on a revoked license and consented to search of his truck cannot credibly disclaim he was unaware of the methamphetamine hidden below a towel wrapped around the base of the gear shift; based ...

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The Court of Appeals reverses revocation of defendant’s previously suspended sentences for 2004 convictions of robbery and malicious wounding, based on the trial court’s violation of his due process rights by admitting hearsay evidence through the testimony of a probation ...

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The testimony of defendant, a retired police officer of 25 years, that he grabbed his gun and shot at his wife to scare her away after thrust a knife at him, provided more than a scintilla of evidence to support ...

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Although defendant insisted he was not driving the SUV when rescue squad staff found him alone upside down in the overturned vehicle with one leg wrapped around the steering wheel, the trial court was entitled to reject his credibility and ...

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A 35-year-old defendant who admitted to Facebook messages telling a 14-year-old girl he loved her, and her testimony that they had sexual relations and she became pregnant and had an abortion, supported defendant’s convictions of two counts of carnal knowledge, ...

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Although wife and her boyfriend were in an exclusive relationship and he paid some of their expenses and stayed at her home several nights a week, they were not in a relationship analogous to marriage because the boyfriend maintained a ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds a trial court’s award of $1,200 per month in spousal support for five years to wife; wife’s testimony about barely being able to make ends meet on her $500 monthly temporary support demonstrated that wife ...

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A defendant who violated the terms of a plea agreement when he failed to provide prescriptions to his probation officer and tested positive for oxycodone cannot overturn his drug and firearm convictions by arguing that he did not understand he ...

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A personal trainer charged with object sexual penetration of a client during a training session failed to argue at trial that the commonwealth did not prove penetration, and the Court of Appeals affirms his conviction under Va. Code Sec. 18.2-67.2 ...

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