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The last person to be sentenced to death in Virginia was Mark E. Lawlor, sentenced June 23, 2011, by the Honorable Randy I. Bellows of Fairfax County Circuit Court. In 2020, however, Lawlor won a federal appeal which required a retrial of the sentencing phase, and the new commonwealth attorney chose to reduce the sentence to life in prison ...
Simpson vs. United States, 435 U.S. 6, was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a defendant cannot be sentenced under the punishments of both 18 U.S.C. 2113 (d) [1] and 18 U.S.C. 924 (a) [2] for armed robbery.
Handling both cases, the district attorney of the Parish of Orleans, Harry Connick Sr., chose to first bring to trial the armed robbery charge against Thompson in hopes that a conviction would help with the murder case. Based solely on the identification by the three victims, Thompson was found guilty of attempted armed robbery and sentenced to ...
An Atlantic Beach town council candidate spent six years in federal prison following a 2007 conviction on multiple drug charges in Virginia, according to court records.
Fifteen of the 98 cases coming through Virginia courtrooms involve Petersburg, according to data from the attorney general's office 15 'Ceasefire' cases in Virginia courts originated in Petersburg ...
After serving 27 years for a string of armed robberies he committed in the early 90s, McCloud was released from prison in 2018 after a Johnson County judge said the terms of his sentence should ...
Richmond Police Department (Virginia) Johnson and a trainee officer were responding to a backup call for a robbery. Johnson was driving 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) in a 35-mile-per-hour (56 km/h) zone when he drove through a red light and struck a vehicle, killing Jeremiah Ruffin and Tracey Williams. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter ...
Robbery 3–7 years. If the robbery is committed upon a person that is over 60 years old, is physically handicapped, or if the Robbery occurred in a school or church, 4–15 years. If it involved certain conditions, 30–60 years in prison. Armed Robbery 6–30 years. If it involved certain aggravating conditions, 30–60 years in prison.