A high school principal stung by a critical comment in a local newspaper lost her multi-million-dollar libel suit this spring when a judge ruled the published statements were not defamatory.
Stung by a federal judge’s finding of prosecutorial misconduct, government lawyers say they do not plan to put alleged pill pusher Les Burns on trial a second time.
After years of denying responsibility for the 2001 murder of Daniel Petrole, the sentence death row inmate Justin Wolfe received from Judge Carroll Weimer was the maximum possible under a plea agreement.
The Charlottesville civil lawsuit against convicted killer George Huguely V remains sidelined while the issue of his insurance coverage is litigated in Maryland, reports The Daily Progress.
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