Most who know me well, know that I spend as little time as possible in the trial courts -- in fact virtually none. I managed to keep that record intact on Monday. I was asked to consult on a personal injury case that had moved from the general district court to the...
Anthony Andre's Mackey v. Commonwealth of Virginia, an unpublished opinion of the Court of Appeals released on January 26, 2021 deserves a brief mention in this space because it is a classic example of a failure to take not of what is a final order can result in the...
A nonconsensual stop is lawful if the objective facts would have permitted the stop, even if the officer requesting the stop intended for it to have been consensual. Admissibility of hearsay evidence of a confidential informant’s information during a suppression hearing is not based on its reliability, which goes to the weight of the evidence.
If you Google the difference between the terms “lawyer” and “attorney” you will get any number of websites with various explanations of the two terms origins and meanings. Generally, the etymology of the two words comes down to one being of from Middle English...
What happens when someone “trained to think like a lawyer” takes on election conspiracies and COVID-19? Find out in this first edition of the VALBlog SoapBox.
Summary of three published opinions of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
What can you learn from an unpublished opinion? Quite a lot as it turns out. Appellate Lawyer John Koehler analyzes an unpublished opinion from the Court of Appeals of Virginia, and it has some eye-opening lessons for all attorneys.