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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Where the trial court included $800 for monthly child-care expenses in its child support award to mother, this was error because she did not actually incur the expenses. Overview Mother had primary custody of the parties’ three children.  She relocated ...

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Even though wife’s receipt of an inheritance was a changed circumstance, the trial court properly concluded that it did not warrant ending husband’s spousal support obligation. Facts The final divorce decree awarded wife $800 per month in permanent spousal support. ...

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Where appellant was indicted for carnal knowledge of a child between the age of 13 and 15, there was no error when the trial court allowed the commonwealth to amend the indictment at trial to taking indecent liberties with a ...

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