185 ABA Journal West Virginia articles.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has filed a lawsuit that alleges school officials in Mingo County retaliated against two middle-school students who reported sexual abuse last year and protected…
May 9, 2014 4:35 PM CDT
A West Virginia prosecutor maintains he has a constitutional right to discipline his son with a belt.
Kanawha County Prosecutor Mark Plants is seeking dismissal of a misdemeanor domestic battery…
Apr 10, 2014 12:10 PM CDT
All charges have been dropped against a West Virginia lawyer and his private investigator in a witness-intimidation case, following the deaths of two prosecution witnesses.
Attorney Paul J. Harris and…
Feb 21, 2014 3:40 PM CST
Don’t drink the water. Don’t wash, rinse, cook or bathe with it, either.
That’s the message for some 300,000 West Virginians as the result of a Thursday leak from a…
Jan 10, 2014 10:30 PM CST
Rejecting a widow’s argument that a coal company committed a fraud on the court by withholding information from its own experts supporting her husband’s claim of black lung disease in…
Jan 3, 2014 9:25 PM CST
A West Virginia lawyer is facing a felony case after allegedly concealing evidence concerning a friend who police say shot a man after a New Year’s Day fight over pizza…
Jan 3, 2014 5:40 PM CST
A popular West Virginia prosecutor who got too close to the wrong people pleaded guilty on Monday to a federal misdemeanor charge.
Michael Sparks, 44, had proclaimed his innocence early…
Nov 19, 2013 8:10 PM CST
A West Virginia judge was criminally charged with misdemeanor battery Monday after an incident in which he is accused of shouting at a nurse and grabbing her arm while insisting…
Nov 5, 2013 10:30 PM CST
A search of the home of a onetime Wheeling, W. Va., police officer after he fired 23 rounds from an assault rifle at a federal courthouse there earlier this month…
Nov 4, 2013 5:40 PM CST
Three West Virginia lawyers are being investigated by legal ethics authorities following federal criminal charges against a now-former Mingo County circuit judge, prosecutor and chief magistrate.
The three attorneys either…
Oct 15, 2013 9:39 PM CDT
A gunman who fired at AK-47 at a federal courthouse in West Virginia on Wednesday before being shot to death by responding security guards and police probably did not hold…
Oct 10, 2013 6:20 PM CDT
Until yesterday, a county prosecutor in West Virginia had denied any wrongdoing related to the federal corruption case in which a county judge has already pleaded guilty.
But on Wednesday…
Oct 10, 2013 4:25 PM CDT
Updated: A former Wheeling police officer fired multiple shots at a federal courthouse in West Virginia on Wednesday, and was then shot in a battle with security officers and local…
Oct 9, 2013 9:29 PM CDT
A high-earning Kentucky disability lawyer featured in a 60 Minutes television segment that aired Sunday subsequently took the Fifth during a U.S. Senate committee hearing.
Eric Conn told the Senate…
Oct 8, 2013 4:35 PM CDT
A now-former West Virginia judge accused of two unusual crimes has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in one case in exchange for having charges dropped in another.
Mingo Circuit Judge Michael…
Oct 3, 2013 5:30 PM CDT
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