The Court of Appeals summarily affirms a trial court’s declaration that appellant’s marriage was void ab initio, and awarding appellee wife attorney’s fees and costs. The parties were married in Korea in 2002. Wife filed for divorce in 2007, alleging ...

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

A defendant who pursued his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend on a highway at rates of speed up to 100 mph, twice ramming the boyfriend’s car and causing it to flip and crash, has his conviction of unlawful wounding affirmed ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge D. Arthur Kelsey Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals agrees that defendant, a landscaping contractor, did not have the intent to defraud the property owners when he received money for tree work on their property, and the court reverses his conviction for construction fraud in ...

Tagged with: Criminal Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals says a trial court did not err in amending, prior to arraignment, one indictment charging indecent liberties with a child under Va. Code § 18.2-370 to charge aggravated sexual battery, and defendant’s conviction of that charge ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Robert P. Frank Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals had authority to award attorney’s fees to wife when it dismissed husband’s earlier interlocutory appeal. Husband earlier appealed a circuit court order denying his motion to terminate that court’s jurisdiction over modification of spousal support to ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge William G. Petty Virginia Court of Appeals

A defendant who had a baggie with cocaine stuck between his buttocks when he was booked at jail on an assault and battery charge cannot overturn his conviction under Va. Code § 53.1-203(5) with a claim that he did not ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

A Vermont judge has issued an arrest warrant for the missing mother in a two-state, same-sex custody battle. Family Court Judge William Cohen ordered the arrest of Lisa Miller, who has refused to turn over her 7-year-old daughter Isabella pursuant ...

Tagged with: Criminal Domestic Relations General District Court Virginia Court of Appeals

A life tenant of a Hanover County farm who attempted to frustrate the interest of the eventual heir of the farm by adopting, when he was age 70, an adult woman as his daughter and then obtaining from her a ...

Tagged with: Judge T.S. Ellis III Virginia Court of Appeals Wills & Trusts

On rehearing en banc, the Court of Appeals split 6-5, upholding the defendant’s conviction because he volunteered to take a breath test before he was informed of the implied consent statute. Defendant crashed his pickup truck on the private road ...

Tagged with: Judge Randolph A. Beales Traffic Offenses Virginia Court of Appeals

A contention that the denial of a request to call a witness amounted to structural error does not excuse the failure to proffer the testimony of the witness, the Court of Appeals holds in affirming convictions for obtaining money by ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge D. Arthur Kelsey Virginia Court of Appeals