A Manassas man may be re-tried after the Court of Appeals reversed convictions of capital murder and abduction, The News & Messenger reports. Anthony Dale Crawford was convicted Feb. 9, 2007, of killing his estranged wife in 2004. In May ...

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Same judge, different lawyer, still contempt. The Virginia Court of Appeals today upheld a second contempt citation by former Norfolk Circuit Judge Charles D. Griffith Jr. for a lawyer who assumed that a continuance would be granted as a matter ...

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Same judge, different lawyer, still contempt. The Virginia Court of Appeals today upheld a second contempt citation by former Norfolk Circuit Judge Charles D. Griffith Jr. for a lawyer who assumed that a continuance would be granted as a matter ...

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Judge Cleo E. Powell was sworn in formally this afternoon as the newest judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals. She had served previously as a general district and circuit judge in Chesterfield County. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine appointed her ...

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The Virginia Supreme Court’s remand of a grandparent custody case has raised questions about who gets to award attorney’s fees, according to four judges of the Court of Appeals. In its Sept. 12 opinion in Lynchburg Division of Social Services ...

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Travis Stacey Whitehead was in the right rear passenger seat when a narcotics detection dog alerted on the driver’s door of a car in Suffolk in April 2006. Police searched the car and the other four occupants of the vehicle ...

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That’s what the Virginia Court of Appeals said this week to a Fairfax couple who divorced in 2006 but still managed to accumulate a 6,000-page, 19-volume joint appendix in their 2008 appeal. Jeffrey and Lynette Fadness married in 1980 and ...

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We have yet another example of the importance of precision in appellate practice in Virginia, even if the lack of precision ultimately turned out not to be fatal.The issue stemmed from the detention of Matthew Tremaine Moore in February 2005 ...

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A divorce court cannot order that custody will automatically change from mom to dad if the mother decides to move out of Virginia or more than 30 miles from the father’s home, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled today. In ...

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A defense attorney has a trial date for a client charged with drunken driving. The prosecutor agrees to a continuance, and the lawyers endorse a proposed order. The defense attorney advises his client that he does not have to appear ...

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