The Court of Appeals released three published opinions Tuesday. As I am hunkered down in the Virginia Appellate Lawyer Social Media Bunker working on a petition to the Supreme Court of Virginia, it may take a while to post summaries and analyses of all four, but I...
Overview of the October 2020 Term: A Year of Transition The Supreme Court began hearing cases for the term on October 5, 2020. The court’s yearly term begins on the first Monday in October and lasts until the first Monday in October the following year. This term, the...
Kelly Lamont Poole v. Commonwealth of Virginia involves a conviction under Code § 18.2-61(A), Virginia's non-consensual rape statute (as opposed to "status-based rape" commonly referred to as "statutory rape"). Since 2006, Code § 18.2-61(A) has clearly stated that it...
Circumstances at the Virginia Appellate Lawyer Social Media Bunker permit to address the single published opinion of the Court of Appeals of Virginia in a more timely fashion than last week or week before. Jai A. King v. Commonwealth of Virginia poses the interesting...
I freely admit that this post is overdue. The last several weeks have seen some frenetic activity in the Virginia Appellate Lawyer Social Media Bunker, but none of it was related to coverage of the most recent published opinions of the Virginia Court of Appeals, so...