There was sufficient circumstantial evidence from which the trial court could conclude that appellant was the person who killed the victim. In the trial court Addison was charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death of Chalkley. Chalkley’s body, ...

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Where appellant sought a protective order against police officers who issued her a trespass citation, her subsequent perjury conviction for statements she made at the protective order hearing will not be reviewed on appeal under the “ends of justice” exception ...

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Where the trial court refused to give appellant’s proposed jury instruction on the lesser-included offense of voluntary manslaughter, his second-degree murder conviction is reversed and the case is remanded for a new trial “if the Commonwealth be so inclined.” Overview ...

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Appellant has waived his assignment of error that there was insufficient evidence to convict him of driving on a revoked license because he has not explained how the two cited cases in his appellate brief support his argument. Overview Police ...

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Where appellant’s minor daughter called three family members and 911 because she was “real scared” about appellant’s erratic driving, she was not a child “in need of services” as defined by statute, and appellant’s conviction of contributing to the delinquency ...

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Where police detained and searched appellant after an off-duty officer relayed an informant’s tip that appellant was inside a store, armed with a gun and selling drugs, the circuit court correctly denied his motion to suppress a gun and drugs ...

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The trial court erred by allowing an attorney to serve as a private prosecutor in appellant’s criminal assault trial while simultaneously representing the complaining witness in a civil matter involving appellant. The simultaneous representation was a conflict of interest that ...

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The trial court properly concluded “that husband’s pattern of behavior, culminating in the battery for which he was convicted, would ‘cause [a] reasonable apprehension of serious danger in the future’ or would be ‘likely to be repeated.’ … Therefore, the ...

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The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission properly ordered employer to compensate claimant for the sick and personal leave time she used to cover a gap in pay while she was off work due to a compensable injury. Background From Aug. 18, ...

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Where an adoption agency sent a certified letter to a putative father informing him about the Virginia Birth Father Registry, he was not obligated to register within the time specified in Code § 63.2-1250(F) to have standing to participate in ...

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