A Virginia inmate who spent 27 years in prison for multiple rape convictions has obtained a writ of actual innocence and a job with the state attorney general who supported…
Loudoun County commissioners in Leesburg, Va., discussed ending courthouse holiday displays Tuesday evening after controversy erupted over a skeleton Santa on a cross.
In at least the third would-be class action filed since technology blogger Trevor Eckhart last month reported that smartphones are providing carriers with private information about individual…
After pleading guilty earlier this year to embezzling over half a million dollars from a Virginia personal injury firm and apologizing in a sentencing hearing today, a former bookkeeper has…
In an example of how cutting-edge technology apparently may be far ahead of lawmakers, PC Magazine is reporting that at least two U.S. shopping malls, in California…
With the statute of limitations nearly expired, a Virginia lawyer who couldn’t reach the estate administrators went ahead and filed a wrongful death suit over the slaying of an unarmed…
A Virginia judge knocked $4.13 million off a $10 million wrongful death award and OK’d an additional $722,000 legal fees clawback due to withheld evidence.
A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., today ruled that three individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy in their Twitter accounts because they agreed, by clicking, to boilerplate terms of…
A Richmond attorney contends that he has a First Amendment right to write about his cases and other matters of interest on a law blog related to his law firm.
Updated: Richmond, Va.-based criminal defense attorney Horace Hunter, who blogs about cases he’s worked on (and national and local criminal justice issues) at Richmond Criminal…
Convinced that a convicted rapist exonerated by DNA evidence in two cases, after serving 27 years, is also innocent in two other cases, Virginia’s top law enforcement official has personally…
Developing: In a ruling today, the Richmond, Va.-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to strike down a controversial health care plan backed by President Barack Obama, nixing a…
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