A 16-year-old girl’s testimony that defen­dant pointed a gun in her face in order to gain access to her apartment and to steal a laptop, a cell phone and a Ziplock bag of change, pro­vided sufficient evidence that defendant used ...

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Justice Stephen R. McCullough was invested as the 106th member of the Supreme Court of Virginia on May 23, at a ceremony featuring his family, his colleagues from the Court of Appeals and past co-workers at the Virginia Attorney General’s ...

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Virginia State Bar Executive Director Karen A. Gould has received the 2016 Murray Janus Professionalism Award from the Richmond-based John Marshall Inn of Court. The John Marshall Inn created the Murray Janus Award in 2014 to honor members who exemplify ...

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A trial court did not err in finding hus­band could not stop spousal support due to a drafting error based on a mutual mistake in a couple’s separation agreement allowing spousal support to terminate “upon remar­riage or the death of ...

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A trial court did not err in allowing the commonwealth to treat a shooting victim as a hostile witness to allow her examination on her prior inconsistent statements which placed defendant at the scene, shooting at the witness, and asking ...

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Although defendant presented docu­ments challenging the prosecution’s as­sertion that he was convicted of DUI in violation of Va. Code § 18.2-266 in 2005, the trial court reasonably could count that conviction as one of defendant’s two prior DUI convictions in ...

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A trial court erred in allowing a pri­or DUI conviction that was based on a reduced charge to count as a third DUI offense within five years under Va. Code § 18.2-270; the Court of Appeals affirms defendant’s DUI conviction ...

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A defendant who opened a door to enter the separate living quarters of the own­er of the apartment he rented, created earlier when the owner converted three bedrooms of her former single-family home into a separate apartment for her mother, ...

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The Court of Appeals says a defendant picked up with his brother, who had a recent Oxycodone prescription that was missing 50 pills in a period of days, can be convicted of conspiracy and pos­session of a controlled substance with ...

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A defendant convicted of firearm possession as a felon cannot overturn that conviction with a claim that the trial court erred in not allowing him to cross-examine a prosecution witness – defendant’s live-in girlfriend – regard­ing felony charges pending against ...

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