Law

Judge Henry Hudson hasn’t announced yet whether he’ll toss the case, but urged all parties involved to ask the General Assembly to deal with the issue through legislation.

Attorney General Mark Herring is suing the Hampton Roads-area town where police officers held an Army lieutenant at gunpoint during a traffic stop one year ago.

The report found that over the past decade, Black youth in Virginia were about 2.5 times more likely than white youth to be referred to the juvenile justice system.

The Chair of Virginia’s Parole Board forwarded a press release Tuesday. The subject line: "setting the record straight."

On Tuesday, a federal court in Richmond will hear arguments in a lawsuit against the state of Virginia over it’s policy of barring the public from accessing court records remotely.

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a Mississippi abortion case that could end or significantly roll back abortion rights in the country. The court’s conservative majority signaled it will uphold the Mississippi restrictions, opening the door for other states to stamp out abortion access. Mississippi’s Attorney General asked the court to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that established a constitutional right to abortion up to about 23 weeks.

Attorney Jarrett Adams is asking the Virginia Court of Appeals to rush a decision on the unusual case of his clients Terrence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne. The two Black men have served more than 20 years in federal prison for the 1998 murder of Alan Gibson, a Waverly, Virginia police officer - despite a federal jury finding them “not guilty” of the crime.

Officer Ja’Ontay Wilson shot Orlando Carter three times in the 1300 block of Coalter Street on New Year's Eve. Carter survived the shooting, but is facing felony charges of possession of a firearm by a nonviolent person with a felony conviction and eluding police.

After three days of deliberations, the jury returned mixed verdicts in a federal civil lawsuit brought against 20 white nationalist leaders and groups. They were accused of planning to commit racial violence during the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which left one counterprotester and two police officers dead and many more injured.

Four years ago, hundreds of people - mostly white men - rallied in Charlottesville to protest the planned removal of Confederate monuments and spread white supremacist propaganda. The rally, called Unite the Right, brought a throng of known hate groups from around the country. Now a lawsuit alleging they planned the violence that ensued heads to a jury.