The VLW Blog

According to this blog post, there are three candidates, so far, for next month’s election to fill the seat of former Fredericksburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Charles Sharp.  Gov. Timothy M. Kaine in August appointed Sharp to the circuit court bench.
The announced candidates are assistant Fredericksburg prosecutor La Bravia J. Jenkins, local attorney Joseph “Jeh” Hicks, and […]

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A Campbell County businessman is letting everyone known just how he feels about having to call a halt to weekend automobile sales on his parking lot.
Apparently, roofing supply dealer Melvin T. Morgan used to allow folks to sell their cars on his parking lot, a prominent location on heavily traveled U.S. Route 460 near New […]

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Note to self: Don’t swipe a surfboard at the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach when Virginia’s prosecutors are meeting there.
A couple of would-be wave riders apparently tried just that, only to run afoul of Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney (and surfer) Ray Morrogh.
We hear that Morrogh was leaving a Thursday afternoon meeting at the Cavalier when […]

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Indictments returned this week against four people in a vote fraud case are only part of a long-running investigation of alleged corruption in the Wise County town of St. Paul. The Bristol Herald Courier has details.
Consider it a study in contrasts. In Gloucester County, where citizens protested a January clean sweep at the […]

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Judge Martin Clark’s newest novel, The Legal Limit, is drawing favorable reviews in the national press.
Clark, who has been on the bench for 15 years, currently serves as a circuit court judge in Patrick and Henry Counties and the City of Martinsville. In a provocative introduction to his tale of two brothers, Clark says the […]

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The Bat Phone has rung again for the prosecutor in Fincastle. Botetourt County Commonwealth’s Attorney Joel Branscom has long been the go-to guy in Southwest Virginia to serve as special prosecutor when the local parties are too close for comfort. The latest call to arms comes from Roanoke. Commonwealth’s Attorney Don Caldwell […]

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Denise Lunsford was elected Albemarle County commonwealth’s attorney last month, beating four-term incumbent Jim Camblos. As she prepares to take office, she has fired the county deputy commonwealth’s attorney, Richard Moore.
The Daily Progress reports that Moore, who held the job for four years after serving in similar post in Charlottesville for more than eight […]

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From yesterday’s election results…
Two longtime commonwealth’s attorneys, one in Caroline County and the other in Albemarle, were defeated by opponents calling for change.
In Caroline, Harvey Latney Jr. has been the top prosecutor for 30 years. But newcomer Tony Spencer got 60 percent of the vote, according to The Free Lance-Star.
And The Daily Progress reports […]

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A lawyer might understand a distinction between “illegal conduct” by a judge and a lack of statutory authority for judicial action, but everybody at a Republican breakfast in Virginia Beach on Feb. 3 probably wasn’t a lawyer.
Or maybe it’s a distinction without a difference to Virginia Beach’s nine circuit judges.
The Virginian-Pilot reports that Bryant acknowledged […]

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Ray Morrogh, the longtime deputy prosecutor in Fairfax who hopes to succeed his retiring boss, Bob Horan, filed as expected for the local Democratic nomination for commonwealth’s attorney. But he’ll have an opponent this fall: Arlington assistant commonwealth’s attorney Patrick McDade will seek the GOP nod for Fairfax commonwealth’s attorney, reports the Washington Post.
With […]

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