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Defendant's Conviction for Obstruction of Justice Reversed
July 28, 2009
In the case of Marcus Antwan Atkins v. Commonwealth of Virginia, the Virginia Court of Appeals recently reversed a defendant's conviction for obstruction of justice as the court found that "mere flight" from a police officer does not constitute obstruction of justice.
Attachments:
VACt.ofAppeals-Atkins.pdf
Virginia Supreme Court Decides Two Cases Involving Improper Police Interrogation
July 01, 2009
A Virginia court has held in two separate cases that statements made during a custodial interrogation should have been suppressed in the defendant's criminal trial because the defendant made a clear, unambiguous and unequivocal invocation of the right to counsel prior to making such statements and the police failed to honor the invocation of that right.
Attachments:
VaSupCt-Zektaw.pdf
VASupCt-Ferguson.pdf
