Virginia Right!

There are some encouraging signs in the UK for a change.  Thursday, Parliament will vote on whether to defy the European Court of Human Rights and refuse to allow convicted prisoners to vote in elections. The PM is allowing all the Coalition MPs the privilege to vote their conscience on the issue. From the Daily [...]

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Cuccinelli was the first statewide candidate to recognize the impact that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Melendez decision would have on prosecutions in Virginia.

In essence, the Court’s ruling made it far easier for defense attorneys to compel live testimony by forensic analysts in drug and DUI trials. Tyler Whitley reported today that in July, 2008 there were 43 subpoenas for drug examiners in the state- this year there were more than 900.
Cuccinelli understood from the get-go that this would result in an intolerable strain on the relatively small number of forensic analysts in the state and precipitate a backlog, in both court trials and in crime scene testing.

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