A claimant who had been driving a school bus for 30 years and who injured her right hand and right knee when she tripped over a bus wheelchair lift that did not lower completely showed that she reasonably marketed her ...

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A claimant who worked multiple shifts in a 24-hour period and, on one assignment, spent hours on his knees reaching, bending and grabbing a hose to unclog a drain at a movie theater, failed to prove an “identifiable incident” which ...

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At defendant’s trial for assault on a law enforcement officer and related charges, the trial court did not err when it permitted a witness to read his entire witness statement in open court; when defense counsel tried to impeach the ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Although trial counsel purportedly ac­knowledged, during a hearing on the com­monwealth’s request for a continuance, that a later trial date was within the five-month statutory speedy trial date, trial counsel later explicitly objected to the continuance on speedy trial grounds ...

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At defendant’s trial for DUI and malicious wounding, arising from a traffic accident in which his wife said defendant had yanked the van’s steering wheel to make it go off the road, the trial court did not err in admitting ...

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A child services agency is not required to pay back $1.1 million in Medicaid funding; the Court of Appeals says the circuit court erred in upholding a director decision refusing to accept the hearing officer’s recommendation in favor of the ...

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A defendant who drove away from a driveway, leaving his girlfriend behind after an argument, and wrecked the rental car after reportedly driving into traffic at 60 miles per hour in a round­about, is convicted of felony destruction of property ...

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The Court of Appeals reverses two counts of possession of child pornogra­phy, as the trial court erred when it re­lied on images found in the unallocated space on defendant’s desktop and in the thumb cache on the laptop to establish ...

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A defendant working as a confidential infor­mant with an Alexandria detective, who made an unauthorized sale of cocaine to a buyer who unknowingly purchased the drug for another undercover detective on the same narcotics/ vice squad, has his conviction for ...

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A husband’s promise not to divorce wife for 20 years was consideration for an enforceable post-nuptial contract, but the parties intend­ed the agreement to provide insurance cover­age for wife, whose health was deteriorating; the Court of Appeals upholds a trial ...

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