An attorney violated Rule 1.7(a)(2) of the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct by engaging in a sexual relationship with his client during representation, the Supreme Court of Virginia held, affirming a ruling of a three-judge panel in an attorney discipline ...

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Where an attorney had sexual relations with a client, this conduct violated Rule 1.7(a)(2) of the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct. Overview After exchanging a series of explicit texts, appellant Brown and C.C. had sexual relations while Brown was representing ...

Tagged with: Attorneys Justice Thomas P. Mann Supreme Court of Virginia

Where the circuit court employed an incorrect standard to review and deny appellant’s expungement petition, the circuit court’s denial is reversed. The case is remanded for reconsideration under a clarified review standard. Overview “Williams appeals from the denial of her ...

Tagged with: Criminal Justice Thomas P. Mann Supreme Court of Virginia

Where appellant presented a note to a store clerk “demanding money or her life[,]”and then put her hand in her pocket, there was sufficient evidence for a jury to find that the bulge in the robber’s pocket was a gun. ...

Tagged with: Criminal Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Justice Thomas P. Mann Supreme Court of Virginia

A Supreme Court of Virginia majority has refused to expunge a felony charge of driving while intoxicated even though the government conceded that the man didn’t have the requisite prior felony and should only have been charged with a misdemeanor. ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Justice Cleo E. Powell Justice Thomas P. Mann Supreme Court of Virginia