Tag Archive | Appellate Defender
Posted on August 15, 2013. Tags: Actual Innocence, American Bar Association, Appellate Defender, Commutations, Consenting Adults, Cuccinelli, Decriminalization, Eric Holder, Indigent Defense Services, Legalization Of Marijuana, Mandatory Minimum Drug, Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences, Mandatory Minimum Sentences, Nonviolent Drug Offenders, Poverty And Crime, Psychobabble, Public Defender System, Sarvis, Terry Mcauliffe, Violent Drug
I am pleased with the recent announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder to stop using mandatory minimum sentences for certain non-violent drug offenders: The Justice Department will no longer pursue mandatory minimum sentences for certain low-level, nonviolent drug offenders, Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday, noting the nation is “coldly efficient in jailing criminals,” but […]
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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Posted on March 27, 2013. Tags: Appellate Defender, Boarding Houses, Chap Petersen, Charter Change, Civics Education, Colleges And Universities, Democrat Senator, Education Commission, Fairfax City, Hotel Tax, Initial Resistance, Judicial Magistrates, Legislative Successes, Mental Health Treatment, Nyc Mayor, Pension Protections, State And Local Governments, State Transit, Virginia Colleges, Virginians
I, like millions of others, get the email report of my Favorite Democrat, Senator Chap Petersen. And he did have several legislative successes (The appellate defender should have been included but this was not Chap’s fault!) this session: Dear Friends, Virginians and Citizens of Fairfax: Always worth quoting musical lyrics, circa 1980. This past session […]
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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Posted on February 8, 2013. Tags: Agenda 21, Appellate Defender, Bill Sb, Bobby Jindal, Capital Litigation, Capital Punishment, Cuccinelli, Delegate, Eric Cantor, Hordes, Human Rights Advocates, Human Trafficking, Life Without Parole, Mechanicsville, Polling Places, Richmond Convention Center, Rob Bell, Sandy Sanders, Voting Rights, Willful Murder
Sandy, who is ON LOCATION at the Cong. Eric Cantor breakfast with Gov. Bobby Jindal (Sandy’s hero) at the Richmond Convention Center is ready to make a decision in the Attorney General’s race (Not a BLOG endorsement of course) and that person is: Delegate Rob Bell! Why Bell? Well, I met Del. Bell last year […]
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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Posted on February 2, 2013. Tags: Appellate Defender, Award Reception, Dems, Foreclosures, Garrett, Henry Marsh, Idc, Indigent Defense, John Edwards, Justice Committee, Mceachin, Pdc, Prestigious Honor, Private Practice, Republicans, Rules Of Evidence, Ryan Mcdougle, Senator Henry, Senator John Edwards, Senators, Tommy Norment, Williamsburg Area
Okay, here’s some details on the January 21 defeat of the Appellate Defender bill: The bill was assigned to the Senate Courts of Justice Committee where there were 7 Democrats and 8 Republicans. This committee is chaired by Sen. Tommy Norment, who has a private practice of law in Williamsburg area. I also noticed that […]
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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Posted on January 27, 2013. Tags: Appellate Defender, Bell Tower, Change In Time, Chesapeake, Committee Vote, Delegates, Ditto, Education Committee, Farm Act, General Assembly, Hb, Homeschooled Kids, Homeschoolers, Legislator, Resources Committee, Room C, School Sports, Tea Party, Tim Tebow, Williamsburg
Yes, I am for the so-called Bonita Bill (HB1430) and there will be a rally at the Bell Tower (I plan to be there!) at 330 with the committee vote at 5 pm. Here’s a notice from VA Campaign for Liberty quoted by the Williamsburg Tea Party: The bill is scheduled to be heard by […]
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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Posted on January 16, 2013. Tags: Appellate Defender, Budget Amendment, Budget Cuts, Chairman Thomas, Chap Petersen, Deep Background, Democrat, District36, Donald Mceachin, Email, Exact Time, Indigent Defense, Jill Holtzman Vogel, John S Edwards, M Stanley, Mcdougle, Names, Nbsp, Norment, Old Ads, Republicans, Retirement Age, Senate Bill, Senators, Several Times, Virginia Gov, Virginia Voter
I have written several times about the restoration of the Appellate Defender’s office in Virginia. The Indigent Defense Commission had to abolish the office due to budget cuts. Now you can do something about it! Email your senator if you are in his or her district (especially the Republicans!) or can if a Virginia voter, […]
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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Posted on January 10, 2013. Tags: Appellate Defender, Bold Move, Civil Rights, Clear Path, Commonwealth Address, Delegates, General Assembly, General Idea, Habeeb, Peter Farrell, Probationary Period, Productive Members, Redemption, Restitution, Second Chances, Sentences, Unqualified Support, Violent Felon, Violent Felons, Violent Offenders
I am generally pleased with Governor McDonnell’s State of the Commonwealth address. While it left out unqualified support for the Appellate Defender bill that Senator Petersen introduced and I support, it did contain these words that I do strongly support: While we have significantly improved and fast-tracked the restoration of civil rights process, it’s still […]
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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Posted on December 26, 2012. Tags: Adherence, Appellate Court, Appellate Defender, Chap Petersen, Constitutional Right, Constitutional Rights, Court Of Appeals, Criminal Defendants, Criminal Trial, Gideon, Indefinite Detention, Local Courts, Office 1, Party Group, Right To An Attorney, Sixth Amendment, State Laws, State Supreme Court, Supreme Court Issue, Tea Party
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 […]
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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Posted on December 19, 2012. Tags: Ane, Appellate Courts, Appellate Defender, Appellate Services, Budget Amendment, Chap, Circuit Court Judge, Commonwealth, Defender Office, Fabulous Job, Gideon, High Quality Services, Nine Years, Notice Of Appeal, Perm, Procedural Default, Senat, Support Person, Vlw, Vsc
This is the letter I am sending to many places tonight or over the next few days: I appreciate the opportunity to discuss this issue with you. I appreciate your time. The Appellate Defender’s office would make the promise of Gideon closer to fulfillment in our Commonwealth. In 2009 the IDC abolished the Appellate Defender’s […]
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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Posted on November 28, 2012. Tags: Advocacy, Appellate Defender, Bad News, Crpd, Disabilities, Fax, Foreign Bodies, Lame Duck Session, Majority Leader, Parental Rights, Patriotic American, Patriots, Prayer, Richmond, Richmond Office, Secretary Of The Navy, Servant, Sovereignty, State Capitol, Vote
I was not sure what to do because I am at work and I do not blog from work nor use work stuff for advocacy (although I have broken down for the Appellate Defender issue!) so when I was doing my prayer walk around the state Capitol today, I was seized with an idea: GO […]
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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Posted on September 14, 2012. Tags: Agenda 21, Alabama Cities, Alabama Legislature, Appellate Defender, Assembly Session, Beau Ideal, Blogger, Communist Menace, Deep South, Globalist, Globalists, Hatewatch, Iclei, Intergovernmental Organizations, Morris Dees, Political Subdivisions, Poverty Law Center, Sigh Of Relief, Southern Poverty Law, Southern Poverty Law Center, Splc, State Of Alabama
I was researching this question when I found this at the Southern Poverty Law Center HATEWATCH: News of the Alabama passage heartened anti-ICLEI activists across the nation. The headline on one Virginia blog, for example, reads: “VICTORY! ICLEI BAN PASSED ALABAMA LEGISLATURE! YEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Read it and weep, globalists!” The HATEWATCH was surely trying to protect […]
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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Posted on March 8, 2012. Tags: Acquaintance, Appellate Defender, Breaking News, Budget Amendment, Chap Petersen, Conservative Member, Deer, Fair Warning, General Election, Heath Shuler, Hunting, Lifetime Member, Ndaa, News Democrat, Nra, Qb, Redskins, Reelection, Saints, School Discipline, Senate
As my readers know my Favorite Democrat was Rep. Heath Shuler of NC, the former Redskins and Saints QB, and conservative member of the House. I even nominated Rep. Shuler for President! But I began to sour on Shuler when he refused to vote to repeal Obamacare and he did not run for Governor of […]
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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Posted on January 26, 2012. Tags: Appellate Defender, Budget Amendment, Deep Background, House Of Delegates
We have been talking about the need for an Appellate Defender in Virginia and I am told by deep background that we could sure use a co-sponsor in the House of Delegates. I want to encourage all my readers to ask their House of Delegates member to co-sponsor the Petersen Appellate Defender budget amendment in […]
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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Posted on January 25, 2012. Tags: Appellate Court, Appellate Courts, Appellate Defender, Appellate Division, Budget Amendment, Chap Petersen, Commonwealth, Constitution Of The United States, Conviction, Indigent Defense, Pilot Project, Public Defender Commission, Public Defender Office, Public Defender System, Right To An Attorney, State Appeals Court, Tiny Office, Trial Court, Trial Courts, Virginia Supreme Court
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 […]
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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Posted on January 13, 2012. Tags: Agitator, Appellate Defender, Budget Amendment, Budget Cuts, Commonwealth, Deep Background, Doors, Enabling Act, Money, Sandy, Special Interest
I have a special interest in the VA Appellate Defender’s office: I was the first Appellate Defender in the Commonwealth from 1996 to 2000. In 2009, the doors were shuttered due to budget cuts and the ancillary fact the appellate defender was not protected by statute. I promised I would see about restoring the AD’s […]
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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