Posted on May 2, 2010. Tags: Administration Of Justice, Appellate Judges, Forensic Lab, Fundings, Judicial District, Judicial Experience, Judiciary, Lab Analyst, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness, Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness, Localities, Locality, Partisan Politics, Pursuit Of Happiness, Quarrel, Richmond Times Dispatch, Special Session, Spoils, Stop Gap, Worst Fears
The front page of the Richmond Times-Dispatch confirmed my worst fears: VA. FACES SHORTAGE OF JUDGES I had feared as such and even tried to find a face-saving way to restore the money for the judiciary: Partisan politics. I argued we need to use this time to appoint qualified Republican judges. But no action was taken. […]
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, 2009. Tags: Blog Entry, Cuccinelli, Defendant, Double Jeopardy, Five Months, Forensic Lab, Governor Kaine, Indictment, Jeopardy, Lab Analyst, Midst, Preliminary Hearing, Public Safety Team, Sandy Sanders, Sess, Special Session, Speedy Trial Act, Times Dispatch, Violent Criminals, Virginia General Assembly, Virginia Law
I wrote in a previous blog entry here at Virginia Right that McDonnell and Cuccinelli need to call for a special session of the Virginia General Assembly to amend the law on lab reports to comply with the Supreme Court’s decision in Melendez-Diaz. I am pleased that Sen. Cuccinelli has in deed called for the […]
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 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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