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 ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary Bennett Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

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 ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary Bennett 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 ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary Bennett 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 ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary Bennett Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

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 ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Mary Bennett Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

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. ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Mary Bennett Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

While the defendant’s requested jury instruction was a correct statement of the law, the court found the instructions that were actually given fully covered the legal principle at issue and properly advised the jury that unexplained possession of stolen property ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary Bennett Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

The police had probable cause to make an arrest, but because the defendant was  arrested within the curtilage of his home and there were no exigent circumstances, the trial court did not err in finding the circumstances did not support ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary Bennett Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

Although a driver prevailed in his traffic-infraction trial based upon a video, that did not collaterally estop his subsequent perjury trial, in which the ultimate issue was false testimony, not the video’s accuracy. Background On the morning of April 13, ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary Bennett Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals