A divided panel of the Virginia Court of Appeals today granted the petition of a former Navy SEAL trainee for a writ of actual innocence in the murder of a woman in Virginia Beach in June 1995. Dustin Allen Turner ...

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The legal wrangling over visitation for 7-year-old Isabella Miller continues. Isabella was the child born to Lisa Miller in April 2002 after she and Janet Jenkins had entered into a civil union in Vermont. Miller subsequently sought to have the ...

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“Cohabitation clauses” commonly show up in divorcing couples’ PSAs. Nobody wants to keep paying support to a spouse who has moved on and moved in with somebody else. But such cohabitation clauses are not necessarily “self-executing,” as the Court of ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia will consider whether two Virginia Beach lawyers received proper due process protections when they were held in contempt in the course of a criminal trial. A case that began when lawyer Claude Scialdone offered a ...

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A Danville lawyer who was a no show for oral arguments in two appeals before the Court of Appeals of Virginia has been publicly held in contempt and banned from practicing before that court for two years. The court today ...

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The Virginia State Bar has imposed a one-year suspension on the law license of Anne Marston Lynch, the Suffolk lawyer who was publicly castigated by the Virginia Court of Appeals for repeated lapses in the handling of a criminal appeal. ...

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A man who won reversal of a rape conviction due to police misconduct has won the right to try his civil rights case against the officers. Acting without a lawyer, Engram Bellamy of Waynesboro sued the officers who secretly recorded ...

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The other shoe has dropped. The Supreme Court of Virginia will hear the appeal of Norfolk lawyer Gordon Zedd, who was held in contempt for telling his client to stay home when a prosecutor agreed to continue a traffic case. ...

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In a case that will take you back to your first-year criminal law class, the Virginia Court of Appeals splits 7-3 today in upholding the assault conviction of a school cafeteria worker who was irate that a school bus driver ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has agreed to hear Virginia Beach attorney Kenneth L. Singleton’s appeal of his contempt of court citation. Singleton’s sin? He didn’t show up for court and told his client not to come to court either ...

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