Where the defendant was carrying a firearm while subject to five separate protective orders, his convictions for transporting a firearm while subject to the orders did not violate double jeopardy because the purpose of the statute is to protect each ...

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A defendant was properly convicted of failing to reregister as a sexually violent offender. Background Jack Randall Young was indicted for multiple violations of the Virginia Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act, including two counts of failing to ...

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Because the police officer saw the defendant’s child standing up in the back seat of a moving vehicle, it was reasonable to stop the car to determine whether the defendant, who was convicted of drug possession, had violated the law ...

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A defendant’s conviction for obtaining funds using false pretenses based on her withdrawal of $110 in cash after she had deposited two checks into her account that were subsequently rejected was upheld because the significant deficiencies in her appellate brief ...

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Where an officer’s testimony and a record keeper’s affidavit demonstrated that the defendant missed a sex-offender reregistration date, and the defendant’s statements to the officer that he thought he had mailed the form in gave rise to a presumption that ...

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A statutory exemption allowing individuals to possess a firearm with a magazine capacity of more than 20 rounds if it is secured in a personal, private motor vehicle was not available to a defendant who had stored the firearm in ...

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A Dulles airport employee who was injured while servicing an airplane will not recover benefits because he failed to exclude lightning as a possible cause of his injuries, which is an “act of God”, and failed to show he was ...

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Where an expert testified that febrile seizures did not cause the death of the defendant’s child, and the defendant had the means, motive and opportunity to intentionally cause the child’s death, the defendant was properly convicted of capital murder even ...

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Where an employee received workers’ compensation benefits for a right shoulder injury sustained in the course of her employment, she was also entitled to benefits for a left shoulder injury that was caused by overcompensation following the original injury. Background ...

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An employee failed to follow his employer’s safety rule and was injured after circumventing an interlock gate that would have automatically shut down equipment in a commercial laundry. Because the employee conceded that the employer enforced the safety rule, the ...

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