Seven people – four judges, two lawyers in private practice and a law professor – have been seeking bar endorsements for a pending seat on the Supreme Court of Virginia. Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. will be retiring from the ...

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A man charged with malicious wounding for striking the victim with his fist, but no other weapon, causing bleeding from his eye and mouth can be convicted under Va. Code § 18.2-51, the Court of Appeals holds. Appellant contends the ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds an order requiring husband to pay wife $4,373 in monthly spousal support and finding husband failed to meet previous spousal support obligations in the amount of $121,976. On appeal, husband argued the trial court erred ...

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In this long-running domestic dispute, the Court of Appeals finds a number of issues raised by husband are procedurally defaulted, and further holds that the Bristol Circuit Court did not err in holding that it did not have subject matter ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms three trial court orders that resolved husband’s 12 petitions to amend custody and visitation orders and remands this case to the circuit court for an award of reasonable attorney’s fees to wife. Husband contends the ...

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Although defendant could not complete a plea agreement’s requirements of community service, substance abuse assessment and a drug treatment and education program because he was incarcerated on unrelated charges, the trial court was not obliged to relieve him of those ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms denial of defendant’s motion to withdraw a plea to a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses, as defendant failed to show he had a reasonable defense to warrant a trial. Defendant obtained one loan ...

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Although the prosecutor and trial judge discussed the need for the commonwealth to recall witnesses it had dismissed after defendant withdrew his guilty plea, defendant has not shown that any jurors overheard that conversation or that he was prejudiced by ...

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On rehearing en banc, the Court of Appeals reverses a woman’s conviction for malicious wounding of her husband; her testimony about her intention to commit suicide and accidental shooting of her husband in the forearm in a struggle over the ...

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In a first-impression ruling, the Court of Appeals says a text message is a “writing” under Virginia’s “best evidence” rule, but a trial court did not err in admitting an informant’s testimony about his text messages with defendant, as the ...

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