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The reality of the world we live in. The two stories in the images above were on pages 1 and 2 of The Roanoke Times today. Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of unmasked people attending the pre-game tailgate at Lane Stadium was on Page 1, while on Page 2 was a...
Fellow Appellate Blawger James J. O'Keeffe has a provocative post on his website which I picked up on Linked-In and commented there and he replied and I re-replied (and he may have re-re-replied by now). I will not go into significant detail as you can click the...
In the film A Fish Called Wanda, when the character portrayed by Kevin Kline is confronted with the failure of another of his schemes to double cross his partners in crime, he pauses for a moment with a perplexed look then says in a loud, monotone, “DISAPPOINTED!” ...
The summer doldrums (and some real legal work) have delayed reporting on recent published opinions of the Court of Appeals of Virginia (not to mention the BIG NEWS of 8 – that’s right 8 – new members appointed to the Court this week – a post on this momentous event...
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...
The Court of Appeals released three published opinions and five unpublished opinions today. If one didn’t know better, you might suspect the Court was clearing the decks before the summer hiatus (Editor’s note: One does know better and that is exactly what the Court...