The Norfolk Circuit Court grants the commonwealth’s motion to amend an indictment to permit defendant to be found guilty of shooting another person in the commission of a felony under Va. Code § 18.2-53, in light of the fact that ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court denies defendant’s motion to disqualify plaintiff’s counsel in this med-mal suit, based on a lawyer’s change of employment from the firm defending the suit to the firm that represents plaintiff, during the pendency of the litigation; ...

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A defendant charged with the fatal shooting of his sister’s long-term live-in boyfriend, who testimony indicated had entered defendant’s home in an intoxicated and extremely belligerent state, is convicted of voluntary manslaughter by the Norfolk Circuit Court in a bench ...

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Although a habeas petitioner says the law has changed to allow sentencing courts discretion to run sentences on firearms convictions concurrently, a Norfolk Circuit Court says the court nevertheless could have petitioner’s sentences run consecutively, and the court dismisses the ...

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An equipment operator who promptly informed his foreman that his perforated ulcer required emergency surgery, and who, after surgery, continued to inform employer that he was available for light duty, left work voluntarily and with good cause when employer did ...

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Although defendant claimed his mother could not consent to a police search of his bedroom after she called police to her house after she and the son argued over his payment of rent and because he had a gun and ...

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In this dispute between creditors over the proceeds of a short sale of a home, the Norfolk Circuit Court says the former homeowner may intervene in the interpleader action as a defendant, in order to determine his exposure for the ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court declines to set aside a default judgment of $6,555 in favor of plaintiff D.W. Boyd Corporation, a company that sells and repairs industrial equipment, against defendant William H. Coon, a Michigan “high performance engine enthusiast, hobbyist ...

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Although a police officer was in the store office with defendant when a store risk-loss officer asked defendant what he had done with all the cell phones he shoplifted and defendant said he had sold them, the Norfolk Circuit Court ...

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Although defendant, stopped by police one afternoon as he left an apartment in a public housing complex, repeatedly put his hands back in his pockets despite the officer’s request to leave them out, this action did not give the officer ...

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