A defendant convicted of malicious wounding that occurred in a custody exchange of his daughter, when defendant stabbed his daughter’s maternal grandfather, is not entitled to habeas relief based on a claim of ineffective assistance for trial counsel’s alleged failure ...

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A Virginia defendant cannot overturn his 2011 death sentence based on a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court declaring unconstitutio nal Florida’s capital-sentencing scheme, in which a jury renders an “advisory sentence” but a judge must independently weigh the aggravating and mitigating ...

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A motorist who was hit with a charge of $8,334 for alleged unpaid tolls on her E-Z Pass account, which she obtained in New York state, wins her pro se case against the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authori­ty; the Fairfax Circuit ...

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A Herndon woman caught in a tangle of misleading forms notched a victory over a Northern Virginia toll road agency with a scathing decision by a Fairfax County judge last month. The driver who could have owed as much as ...

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A father who put an electronic tracking device on the car owned and driven by his child’s mother – ostensibly to keep tabs on the child – can be criminally liable for the surreptitious surveillance. Although a Virginia statute provides ...

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Although the arbitration clause in a buyer’s purchase contract for a 2009 Ford Flex does not impose identical obligations on the buyer and the car dealer, in terms of the carve-out allowing each party to take a case to court, ...

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A car dealer can enforce an arbitration clause against a buyer who says the dealer told her the vehicle had never been in a collision, only to have a second inspector tell her the car had been in a wreck ...

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A defendant who has been incarcerat­ed simultaneously on both local charges and a detainer from another county, whose incarceration results in unused jail credit, is entitled to have the sheriff apply the unused jail credit to the sen­tence arising out ...

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On remand from the Supreme Court of Virginia, a Fairfax Circuit Court grants petitioner’s request under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act for the Virginia Department of Corrections to produce Documents 8a-f, which are components of the electric chair and ...

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A Fairfax Circuit Court denies defendant’s motion to set aside a confessed judgment of $703,363.96 on a promissory note defendant executed for a loan by plaintiff; although defendant says the parties did not intend for his payment of $275,040 to ...

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