People v. Rivera — will the Illinois Appellate Court get it right?
The Illinois Appellate Court has a chance to do justice in the case of Juan Rivera, who was convicted of murder and rape even though the DNA evidence exonerates him....
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Client acquitted of embezzlement
Mike Nemeyer, accused by his former employer of 17 counts of embezzlement in the Albemarle Circuit Court, was acquitted on all charges. See the story in The Hook and The Daily Progress....
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Criminalizing civil collections — an update
As I wrote in September, I have been concerned about how the Virginia General Assembly has been changing the laws to allow criminal prosecutions over matters that are really just civil debt collections. The particular problem that I wrote about was a statute in Virginia — Va. Code §18.2-118 — that is being used by […]...
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