Rejecting a mother’s argument that the circuit court erred in finding her children were abused or neglected, the court said the totality of the evidence, which included a video interview of the minor who claimed to have been sexually abused; ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the record amply supported the trial court’s conclusion that the defendant subjected her stepson to “aggravated circumstances,” including not seeking immediate medical treatment for injuries inflicted by his father or addressing the father’s abuse, the court did not err ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

In considering the defendant’s appeal of a circuit court order continuing forced medication to render him competent to stand trial, the court concluded that the determination of competency is “part of [a] purely criminal process,” and the appeal is criminal ...

Tagged with: Criminal Per Curiam Opinion Supreme Court of Virginia

Although the petitioner asserted a gang was threatening him if he returned to El Salvador, evidence supported the immigration judge’s conclusion that the gang’s recruitment efforts were aimed at providing “more opportunities to increase membership,” rather than at persecuting him ...

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While rejecting two challenges to the rejection of a woman’s supplemental security income claims, the court remanded the third claim, finding an ALJ erred by failing to resolve a conflict between a vocational expert’s testimony that claimant could serve as ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Administrative Per Curiam Opinion

Where an inmate claims that the Virginia DNA Statute “sets the standard for post-conviction DNA testing so high that it” violates the 14th Amendment, the district court on remand is directed properly to analyze the procedural due process claims. Background ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Per Curiam Opinion

A defendant who pleaded guilty to carjacking resulting in death will have his sentence of 65 years reviewed so the district court can weigh his argument that he was 15 at the time of the crimes against the gravity of ...

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A mother released from prison who tried to establish a relationship with her daughter will get a new trial because the court focused on the length of their separation and did not properly consider other visitation and custody factors in ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

The court found a trial judge did not err in withdrawing the appeals of a mother who challenged the court’s termination of her parental rights and approval of adoption for her child after she failed to show up for a ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the trial court did not consider the nature of the offense and the potential threat to others before setting bond at $25,000, the defendant,  a man accused of raping and sodomizing his granddaughter, did not overcome the statutory presumption ...

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