Stuarta Raphael News Today

A federal court previously ordered Wright’s early release, saying if his attorney had "been adequately informed, there is a reasonable probability that the outcome of his trial would have been different.”

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

The Court of Appeals of Virginia has affirmed a lower court’s ruling to enforce a contingent-fee agreement between two Virginia attorneys after they disagreed over the percentage of the contingency fee. The prevailing attorney argued the proper percentage was one-third of any recovery obtained by settlement, while the other attorney claimed that the agreed-upon percentage ...

The General Assembly also passed a spending plan for $4.3 billion in federal aid

Lawmakers also announced they had agreed on eight judicial nominees.

FAIRFAX, Va. (CN) — A Virginia judge has denied a preliminary injunction sought by parents of middle school students who sued the Fairfax County School Board over a plan to jettison standardized testing as part of the admissions process for one of the nation’s top high schools.      Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is a so-called governor’s school. As such, the lawsuit argued, it operates as a high school for gifted students identified through multiple criteria,...

FAIRFAX, Va. (CN) — Attorneys for students hoping to attend the country’s most prestigious public science and technology high school argued Monday that a Virginia school board unfairly eliminated the standardized admissions tests that would have made their acceptance a sure thing.   But attorneys for Fairfax County School Board asked a county circuit court judge to toss out the case brought aspiring Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology students and their parents. The sch...