The future of a $3.5 million lawsuit against an attorney could turn on the foreseeability of the murder of a process server. Harrisonburg lawyer Sherwin J. Jacobs could face a trial where he is blamed for the shooting death of ...

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A trial judge’s jury instruction on the elements of the charge of felony speeding to elude in violation of Va. Code § 46.2-817 offered prior to the presentation of evidence is not a basis to grant a petition for a ...

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A Salvadoran citizen who pleaded guilty to misdemeanors of DWI and hit and run wins a hearing on his habeas petition alleging his lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to advise him he could lose his Temporary ...

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It’s a daily occurrence for family lawyers. The client wants a divorce, the lawyer has prepared the pleadings, and it’s time to get the official papers delivered to the opposing party. The local sheriff’s office can do the job – ...

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A Stafford County Circuit Court grants a writ of habeas corpus to a defendant convicted of sexual assault as a juvenile, based on his court-appointed lawyer’s constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel, which included a failure to adequately investigate allegations that ...

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Finding that a Stafford attorney failed to provide reasonably competent representation to a 15-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to rape and burglary, a circuit judge has vacated the convictions. The effort to clear the name of Edgar Coker, now ­­22, ...

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A Charlottesville Circuit Court offered “mere speculation” to justify its decision to bar cameras from the courtroom when it sentenced George Huguely V to 23 years in prison for killing his former girlfriend, Charlottesville lawyer Gregory S. Duncan told the ...

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Although the Fairfax Circuit Court granted defendant’s motion for new DNA testing by methods not available when he was convicted of abduction, rape and sodomy in 2002, the absence of DNA evidence on a knife allegedly used in the offense ...

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While the Supreme Court of Virginia considers the wording of Virginia’s cameras-in-the-courtroom law, a Fairfax County judge has decided to allow news camera coverage of an upcoming murder trial. Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush entered an order July 26 finding ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court overrules demurrers in this suit against an orthopedic practice group in this dispute over a lease guaranty. There is in this case a material dispute of fact apparent from the face of the pleadings, specifically: What ...

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