Although the trial court erred by convicting appellant of attempting to flee the police because he disobeyed the arresting officer’s order to place his hands behind his back, the record supports affirming the conviction for a different reason – the ...

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Appellant’s convictions of possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony and possessing a machine gun for an aggressive purpose are affirmed. There was sufficient evidence he knew the firearm was in the vehicle he occupied. Background A Walmart ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Randolph A. Beales Virginia Court of Appeals

Where appellant was convicted of a misdemeanor in the general district court, appealed, and was convicted after a de novo trial in the circuit court, he cannot challenge the circuit court’s jurisdiction on the basis that his notice of appeal ...

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The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission correctly denied claimant benefits because none of claimant’s alleged employers were liable under the Workers’ Compensation Act. Overview Divino, the claimant, was injured while installing laminate flooring in a building, the Time Building, owned by ...

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Where an apartment was searched after the sole renter consented, a police officer could reasonably have believed that the consent extended to a suitcase found next to appellant’s safe in a bathroom. Evidence found in the suitcase was properly used ...

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Appellant’s accounting business, which he started shortly after the parties were married, was correctly included in the marital estate. Further, the court correctly applied a statutory presumption that the valuation should be made based on the hearing date, rather than ...

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Even though plaintiff slipped and fell on ice, suffered a compensable back injury and received 500 weeks of temporary total disability benefits, she is not entitled to a total and permanent award. Plaintiff suffers from a combination of other conditions ...

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Where the parties’ property settlement agreement provided that husband’s support payments to wife would end if she remarried, she must reimburse husband for support payments he made after she remarried, up until the time she attempted to notify him by ...

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Where the parties’ divorce settlement provided that wife was entitled to a fractional share of husband’s 10-year retirement plan, the fractional share applies to additional amounts husband accrued when he worked three years past the retirement date contemplated in the ...

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Where the circuit court ordered that appellant be removed from the Department of Juvenile Justice and placed in the Department of Corrections Youthful Offender Program, this did not violate the terms of appellant’s plea agreement. Plea agreement “The question before ...

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