Jessi Ryan Hackett News Today

(The Center Square) — The Virginia Court of Appeals released a ruling reversing a Lynchburg court’s conviction of a man for fleeing arrest, a class 1 misdemeanor.

The court ruled the Lynchburg police officer who attempted the arrest didn’t get close enough to the suspect to fulfill the criteria for a fleeing charge.

The Virginia Court of Appeals overruled a man’s misdemeanor conviction for fleeing from police after ruling the Lynchburg police officer who attempted to make the arrest didn’t get close enough