Virginia Right!

The conventional wisdom is that Tea Party candidate (endorsed by Sarah Palin and Ron Paul) and former championship star for the Washington Redskins Clint Didier cannot win.  There are two establishment candidates:  incumbent Patty Murray and twice statewide candidate Dino Rossi.  Only the top two can reach the November ballot. Try out these two articles.  [...]

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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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