A defendant who was involved in the theft of property from different rooms of the house, by different people and at different times, could not argue the thefts constituted a single felony. Background Tateana A. Wells was convicted of grand ...

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Where a defendant and three codefendants arrived and left the victims’ home in the same vehicle and, during the larceny, one of the codefendants took game consoles and other consumer goods from the house and, a short while later, the ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary B. Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

A defendant who was involved in the theft of property from different rooms of the house, by different people and at different times, could not argue the thefts constituted a single felony. Background Tateana A. Wells was convicted of grand ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary B. Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

Where an individual affirmed that he was the natural parent of a child on the child’s birth certificate despite knowing at the time that another man may have been the child’s biological father, and genetic testing later conclusively established that ...

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A husband, who was in the midst of a contentious divorce from his wife, was properly convicted of his wife’s murder where one of his children and two of his friends identified him as the man in security camera video ...

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Where a defendant did not contest the fact that he unlawfully entered the home of another and the homeowner testified that money she left on her dresser was missing after the break-in, the defendant’s conviction was proper because it could ...

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The court rejected a defendant’s claim there was inadequate corroboration of his extrajudicial confession, finding his confession was corroborated by admissions to his wife, his conduct and the testimony of a forensic nurse. To the extent the trial court erred ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary B. Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

The court rejected a defendant’s claim there was inadequate corroboration of his extrajudicial confession, finding his confession was corroborated by admissions to his wife, his conduct and the testimony of a forensic nurse. To the extent the trial court erred ...

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A husband’s claim that the circuit court erred by finding he gifted contested property to his sons was rejected, as the appellate court said the lower court never made that finding but had concluded only that the husband had divested ...

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Although a state employee had received diagnoses of Ramsay Hunt syndrome and Bell’s palsy, the administrative record supported the Virginia Retirement System’s finding that she was not incapacitated for the further performance of duty. Background In January 2012, Mickey L. ...

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