Supreme Court of Virginia Decisions 2025
Date: March 20, 2025
Docket Number: 230800
Justia Opinion Summary: Brian Kuang-Ming Welsh was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony. Welsh, a drug addict, was financially troubled and had been terminated from his…
Date: February 20, 2025
Docket Number: 230914
Justia Opinion Summary: Sergeant Hoggard of the Norfolk Sheriff’s Office received information about cocaine in cell block 2K of the Norfolk City Jail. During a search, a narcotics-detecting canine alerted to a personal property bag on Jerome…
Date: January 16, 2025
Docket Number: 230450
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2017, John Cridler-Smith was convicted of possession with intent to distribute more than five pounds of marijuana. The case began when a postal worker in Loudoun County, Virginia, noticed a suspicious parcel from…
Date: January 16, 2025
Docket Number: 230488
Justia Opinion Summary: On November 10, 2014, a traffic accident occurred at the intersection of Wellington Road and Market Place Avenue involving vehicles driven by Sharon Elizabeth Furr and Janaia Spurlock. Tamara Al-Saray, a passenger in…
Date: January 16, 2025
Docket Number: 230907
Justia Opinion Summary: Tanya Rashae Holland pleaded no contest to felony child neglect resulting in serious injury after giving her three-year-old son methadone, mistaking it for Zyrtec. Her son lost consciousness and nearly died. Holland was…
Date: January 2, 2025
Docket Number: 230879
Justia Opinion Summary: Father Constantine P. Rogakos, an 86-year-old retired Greek-Orthodox priest, visited Bon Secours-DePaul Medical Center for an outpatient abdominal ultrasound. He used a cane due to a shuffled gait and had a history of…
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