CrimLaw

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God Bless our Troops.
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There is bascially a state of war between Richmond's Commonwealth Attorney Office and Richmond's Police Department. The article claims part of this is due to the fact that there has been malaise in Richmond's detectives (which is being fixed since the new police chief came on board). It says the other part is due to the extremely rapid turnover in the Commonwealth Attorney's office and inability to keep experienced prosecutors.

I don't practice in Richmond enought to comment knowledgeably. All I can say is that Chesterfield and Henrico seem to have a lot of very experienced, very competent prosecutors who started out in Richmond's Commonwealth Attorney office.

And who goes to trial against an officer from your own jurisdiction without bringing in a substitute prosecutor from another jurisdiction?

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