After a divorced couple’s former residence was significantly damaged by fire, the husband was entitled to reimbursements from the wife for his outlays to return to property to saleable condition. The trial court did not err in decreasing the wife’s ...

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Cosby v. Commonwealth (VLW No. 017-7-277, 13pp.) (Clements, J.) Record No. 1982-16-2. Appealed from the Circuit County of the City of Richmond. (Rupe, J.) Holding: Where the testimony of a detective that he saw the appellant-defendant in the courthouse about ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Jean Harrison Clements Virginia Court of Appeals

In ruling on father’s petition to modify child support, the circuit court abused its discretion by averaging father’s income from a film production company for the past four years, instead of basing its calculation on father’s current income; however, the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Jean Harrison Clements Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals affirms a change of custody to sole legal and primary physical custody of a couple’s two daughters to father, because mother did not provide a proper appendix; as appellant, mother was responsible for providing a complete ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Jean Harrison Clements Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals says a trial court did not err in awarding mother sole legal and physical custody of a couple’s daughter and in prohibiting the father from attending the child’s gymnastic practices and ordering the child not to ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Jean Harrison Clements Virginia Court of Appeals

Evidence supporting a charge of meth­amphetamine manufacture is suppressed because the affidavit filed with the clerk’s office omitted a page with the investiga­tor’s statements supporting the warrant and the commonwealth failed to file the affidavit within 30 days of the ...

Tagged with: Judge Jean Harrison Clements Search & Seizure Virginia Court of Appeals

Information that defendant’s girlfriend, whom he allegedly assaulted and threatened with a gun, had pending charges against her in another jurisdiction, was not impeachment material under Brady v. Maryland, nor was it useful to show bias; the Court of Appeals ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Jean Harrison Clements Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals does not have juris­diction over an appeal of a trial court deci­sion that appellant’s dog was a “dangerous dog” after the dog attacked another dog, and this appeal is transferred to the Supreme Court of Virginia ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge Jean Harrison Clements Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals affirms defen­dant’s grand larceny conviction despite his claim that the evidence did not estab­lish beyond a reasonable doubt that the stolen trailer tongues had a value of $200 or more. The owner of the trailer tongues ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Jean Harrison Clements Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals reverses defendant’s 45 convictions for possession of child pornography based on photographs found in the unallocated spaces of defendant’s desktop computer and laptop computer issued by the school district that employed him, and affirms nine child ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Jean Harrison Clements Virginia Court of Appeals