Virginia Right!

People might laugh at this idea, but there are at least three good solid reasons why the Tea Party (I am a member of my local Tea Party group – the Mechanicsville Tea Party!) should support the initiative that Senator Chap Petersen has introduced on the Appellate Defender’s (more details here!) office: 1.  The Tea [...]

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I was misled slightly but materially by one of my sources about the Charles Taylor verdict.  I thought it was the International Criminal Court but it is a special court set up by the UN and Sierra Leone instead:  A distinction without a difference. The Special Court for Sierra Leone was set up with a [...]

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I hinted that there was news on the Appellate Defender’s Office front.  Now I can openly discuss it! Senator Chap Petersen of Fairfax has introduced a budget amendment (here it is!) to reestablish an Appellate Defender’s Office in this Commonwealth.  It’s a tiny office at first, not even one quarter the size of the criminal [...]

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