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Family asks for compassion release for Calvin Wayne Cunningham A man whose life spiraled out of control after he was wrongfully convicted of a 1979 rape in Newport News is said to be dying behind bars from cancer. Jon Sheldon, a lawyer for Calvin Wayne Cunningham, an inmate at the Lunenburg Correctional Center, said Friday that, "Calvin got his diagnosis yesterday: stage four liver and pancreatic cancer." "He is in tremendous pain and by his condition it appears that he has a very short time," said Sheldon. Sheldon filed a petition for an emergency compassionate release for Cunningham with th...

Appeal Over Dictionary Use Denied in University of Virginia Lacrosse Slaying A federal judge has rejected an appeal from a former University of Virginia lacrosse player that his 2012 murder conviction should be tossed out because of a claim the jury improperly consulted a dictionary. George Huguely V is serving a 25-year sentence for the 2010 slaying of Yeardley Love, who was herself a lacrosse player at U.Va. and was two weeks away from graduation when she was killed. Huguely has filed multiple unsuccessful appeals. But in a ruling in December, U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen in Roanoke op...

A federal judge has rejected an appeal from former University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely that his 2012 murder conviction in the death of Baltimore's Yeardley Love should be tossed out because of a claim the jury improperly consulted a dictionary.

George Huguely V, 32, is serving a 25-year sentence for the 2010 beating death of 22-year-old Yeardley Love during their time at UVA. A federal judge has rejected his latest appeal attempt.

A federal judge has rejected an appeal from a former University of Virginia lacrosse player that his 2012 murder conviction should be tossed out because of a claim the jury improperly consulted a dictionary.