Law

The Virginia State Police troopers who killed Xzavier Hill have been ordered by a judge to answer several questions his mother Latoya Benton submitted to the court about the night he died.

Attorneys for Charlottesville residents who sued the white nationalist organizers of the deadly Unite the Right rally will soon wrap up their case. Meanwhile, one defendant's attorney told VPM they’re worried they’re running out of time to make theirs.

It’s week two of the month-long trial against white nationalists who planned the 2017 Unite the Right rally. Testimony has been marked by defendants frequently digressing into conspiracy theories and lodging blame at plaintiffs and protesters on the left for the violence in Charlottesville.

Opening arguments began today in the civil trial against white nationalists who planned the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The long-awaited trial is four years in the making, held up by the pandemic and the struggle to collect evidence from unwilling defendants.

RRHA works with the Richmond Police Department, and advocates say that cooperation can have long-term effects on residents and their families.

Jurors will be asked to consider a federal lawsuit that aims to take down the far-right groups financially and bars them from planning future violent events.

In a federal lawsuit filed in 2017, Charlottesville-area residents accuse leaders of far-right and white nationalist groups of coordinating efforts to carry out violence in the city.

Criminal justice reform advocates say Republican political candidates are deploying misleading crime data to discount progress in the commonwealth, while pointing to data that shows most Virginians regardless of party identification feel safer.

Running for reelection, Attorney General Mark Herring is slamming his opponent, Rep. Jason Miyares, for sending people to jail for marijuana possession and petty theft as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney in Virginia Beach.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has refused Virginia Uranium’s appeal to overturn the state’s ban on uranium mining. The policy keeping the industry out of Virginia has been in place for nearly four decades.