I tripped across this hypothesis on the internet (it was framed for the MPC) and thought I'd address it under Virginia law: --------...

Since the the creation of the iPad companies have been trying to make it work in the court room. In particular, we want something that will ...

In Virginia, we have a two tier trial court system. The lower trial courts are General District Court (GDC) and Juvenile and Domestic Rela...

Pitcairn County: Suppresion Hearing Sometimes it is interesting to see different perceptions of reality clash in the courtroom. Big City A...

Virginia's General Assembly has been considering and reconsidering the possibility of passing a statutory Castle Doctrine.  Generally, t...

Every so often, I forget what it's like to read the kind of faux intellectual treatises that exist at the edge of the social studies in...

You'll all recall that back when the United States Supreme Court declared dog sniffs not to be searches I took umbrage . In fact, I ev...

Maryland police are brave enough to pull over Batman .

In honor of the U.S. Supreme Court's acceptance of two dog sniff cases (Jardines and Harris), I thought I'd publish some pictures of...

Last week there were a couple of interesting cases about plea agreements fro the U.S. Supreme Court. In Missouri v. Frye, MAR12, USSC No. 1...

Sometimes while you are wandering around the statutes you find some interesting things.  I was looking at the bigamy laws when I tripped ove...

Over at Sentencing Law and Policy, Professor Berman has pointed to a practice in a few Alaska courts of "Circle Sentencing. " It...

Yep, W&L Law is number 24 on the new US News ranking . That keeps W&L the highest ranked private law school in Virginia although the...

So, Scott's off haring after stupid marketing tricks again. This time it is about a kid barely out of the gates spending time worrying a...

Over at The Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh has raised the almost heretical idea that rape is about sex instead of control .  As often occu...

I was just putting together my summaries of last month's cases and read Howes  in depth for the first time. It's a Habeas case risin...

Netflix has decided that I love British television programs and keeps recommending them to me. Most of them I ignore, some of them I watch w...

I am constantly getting asked what the parameters are when a defendant is in a house and officers are seeking to arrest him. Then I always g...