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 July 20, 2013. Tags: Blanket Ban, Carnal Knowledge, Child Predator, Consenting Adults, Crimes Against Nature, Cuccinelli, Daily Kos, Extreme Agenda, Felony Charges, Female Person, Gay Rights Case, General Mcauliffe, Judge Panel, Mcauliffe, Minor Girls, Mother Jones, Nature Law, Pg 13, Private Acts, Reading Pleasure, Sex Offender Registry, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Predator, Sodomy Law, Sodomy Statute, Supreme Court Decision, Terry Mcauliffe, Uncompromising Approach, Virginia Is For Lovers, Virginia Kids, Virginia Law
Terry McAuliffe’s campaign was quoted as saying this about the Attorney General: McAuliffe spokesman Josh Schwerin said the sodomy case was another example of Cuccinelli’s “extreme agenda and uncompromising approach.” The “sodomy case” that the campaign is referring to is this one, decided by the Fourth Circuit in March. Here’s the facts of the case: […]
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 July 13, 2012. Tags: Civil Contract, Civil Union, Consenting Adults, Dictates, Followers Of Christ, Gay Activists, Gay Marriage, Jonathan Turley, Law Professor, Law School, Legal Obligations, Man And A Woman, Moral Validity, Morality, Professor Jonathan, Progeny, Religious Ceremonies, Religious Organizations, Same Sex Unions, State Purposes
I doubt my position on gay marriage will push the Romney VP question out the news door this weekend BUT I felt it is time to speak out. Am I for gay marriage? Well, no and yes. I am for removing the word “marriage” from the state codes and replacing it with “civil union” and […]
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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