The Court of Appeals reverses defendant’s conviction for obstruction of justice for improper venue; he was convicted under Va. Code § 18.2-460(C) in Norfolk Circuit Court, but all the elements of the charged crime of threatening his estranged wife who ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms defendant’s conviction of felony cruelty to animals, based on the death of an ill and underweight puppy named Hannibal. On a complaint about the condition of the adult female boxer and her puppies, an animal ...

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Although defendant, a passenger during a lawful auto stop, claims he was illegally frisked, the officer in question observed the contraband defendant dropped – a glass tube with white residue – in plain view as he forcibly removed defendant from ...

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A state trooper who used the Virginia Criminal Information Network to run inquiries on 15 individuals for personal reasons, including running a search at her girlfriend’s request and a search on her own supervisor, has her 13 misdemeanor convictions of ...

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The Court of Appeals reverses defendant’s convictions for credit card fraud; the trial court erred in admitting into evidence hearsay evidence of bank card transactions, offered for the truth of the assertion and not admissible under any recognized exception to ...

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Testimony by a police officer that he informed defendant a supermarket manager had barred defendant from the store premises was inadmissible hearsay on the point of whether defendant had been informed of the ban by authorized personnel, and the Court ...

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A 29-year-old man who was the only adult present in the house when he had sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl who was staying in the house with a friend of her mother while her mother was away, was in ...

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A defendant who previously had worked for ColorTyme rental store and who provided a “wrong” telephone number and had “moved” from the address he provided when ColorTyme employees arrived to pick up a television defendant rented and failed to make ...

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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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