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Sometimes you just run into something cool that you have to share. Mark walked past the prosecutor's desk and saw a cheat sheet for youn...

The General Assembly has tried to make a statutory "castle doctrine" part of Virginian law for several years now. I discussed a pr...

5 Second Review:  When an American mobster is hidden in Norway everything will go well, right? 30 Second Review:  An American mobster turn...

Interesting. After years of copyright fighting over people copying videos and songs on the internet someone actually went back to the beginn...

Senator Creigh Deeds introduced a bill calling for the elimination of the Virginia Court of Appeals . Per the VLW blog Senator Deeds " ...

There's no way I would have thought my German Shepherd, Holly, could have had so many puppies. I think she's a little overwhelmed h...

The BIG FUSS this week has been about United States v. Jones , JAN12, USSC 10-1259. I read about it first on my phone during a break in a ju...

In Virginia there's a charge of Grand Larceny with intent to Sell or Distribute (we ain't having any of that Robin Hood stuff here)...

Raylan Givens and the gang are back to terrorize Harlan County, Kentucky - as he brings his particular brand of justice home. Tonight 10:0...

As you'll all recall, a couple years back I staked my claim to the Big 4 reasons that people can't possibly go to jail. By the way,...

Forbes ranks colleges and has become enamored with Kentucky. Furthermore, it has spotted the gems of Kentucky Education : Berea & Centre...

Here in Virginia we have larceny, larceny by trick, embezzlement, fraud, concealment (shoplifting), larceny of farm animals, larceny of mil...

Having said yesterday that I wish we would cherry pick the intent section from the Model Penal Code (MPC), let me not leave you with the imp...

Back in the day, the good folks over at the American Legal Institute (ALI) decided that nobody was getting criminal law right. Although in ...

Sentencing is where philosophy meets fiscality. The fiscal part is that which is impossible to get around. At least for the States, which ca...

Merry Christmas everyone!

Ray Larson, the Commonwealth Attorney in Lexington Kentucky, explains the need for for Kentucky's persistent felon laws:

Last week, I expressed disappointment that Virginia's appellate courts are still letting very strict reliance on rules (colloquially kno...

A friend of mine just got sworn in as Commonwealth Attorney for Dickenson County, Virginia. Congratulations Josh Newberry, The new Common...

Despite what seems to be fairly significant efforts on the part of the General Assembly to stop the dismissal of cases and deemed “waivers” ...

Advisement The Court of Appeals remains dedicated to eliminating the common law procedure of taking cases under advisement to be dismissed ...

The 4 th Circuit has rejected a number of vehicle related seizures and searches in published decisions this year. In particular, the 4 th ...