A defendant’s intent to maim, disfigure, disable, or kill could be inferred solely from the act of pistol-whipping his victim before stealing the victim’s money. Background On March 4, 2014, Otis White Jr. went to visit Appellee Marquez Perkins’s mother, ...

Tagged with: Criminal Evidence Published Order Supreme Court of Virginia

In this suit by a transgender boy who challenged his North Carolina high school’s policy requiring students to use bathrooms designated for their biological genders, the 4th Circuit remands this case, on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, back to ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Published Order

The Supreme Court of Virginia imposes a prefiling injunction against an appellant who has filed and appealed rulings in numerous frivolous lawsuits against service-industry defendants in Northern Virginia; appellant is prohibited from filing any petition for appeal, motion, pleading or ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Published Order Supreme Court of Virginia

By order dated Feb. 14, 2017, the court directed the parties to address the impact of the president’s commutation of defendant’s life sentence and, in particular, the questions of mootness and jurisdiction. Upon consideration of the responses to the court’s ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Criminal Published Order

Double jeopardy protection did not preclude the commonwealth from try­ing defendant on a severed charge of possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, despite his acquittal on burglary and grand larceny charges arising from the theft of a large ...

Tagged with: Criminal Published Order Supreme Court of Virginia