Posted on July 22, 2009. Tags: Democratic Nominee, Forensic Scientists, Governor Tim Kaine, House Of Delegates, Ken Cuccinelli, Legislative Process, Material Evidence, Morass, Republican Party Of Virginia, Sage Advice, Special Session, Steve Shannon, Supreme Court Decision, Supreme Court Precedent, Tim Kaine, Trumpet, Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia General Assembly, Virginia Law, Virginia Legislature
RICHMOND – Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Pat Mullins today praised Governor Tim Kaine’s decision to agree with Ken Cuccinelli to call the Virginia General Assembly into a special session to fix a prosecutorial morass following the U.S. Supreme Court decision Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts. The ruling has caused chaos among Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorneys regarding the […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on June 28, 2009. Tags: Acceptable Balance, Circuit Courts, Commonwealth Of Virginia, Confrontation Clause, Cuccinelli, Dna Testing, Evidence Law, Forensic Evidence, Forensic Scientist, Forensic Scientists, Governor Kaine, Lab Analyst, Laboratory Reports, Law States, Pg 21, Procedural Rules, Supreme Court Of The United States, Supreme Court Ruling, Trial Delay, Virginia Law
The Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday effectively struck down the Commonwealth of Virginia’s criminal lab report statute as violative of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. The case not from Virginia, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, held that lab reports cannot be admitted against a defendant but rather the actual lab examiner has […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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