Staying out of the trial court . . . once again.
Most who know me well, know that I spend as little time as possible in the trial courts — in fact virtually none. I managed to keep that...
tloojs
Jan 28, 20211 min read
An Unpublished Opinion Worth a Short Mention
Anthony Andre’s Mackey v. Commonwealth of Virginia, an unpublished opinion of the Court of Appeals released on January 26, 2021 deserves...
tloojs
Jan 28, 20212 min read
Summary and Analysis of Published Opinion of the Court of Appeals, January 26, 2021
Shaka Markel Long v. Commonwealth of Virginia. The lone published opinion from the Court of Appeals this week – the first in two weeks –...
tloojs
Jan 27, 20214 min read
Are you an “Attorney” or a “Lawyer”? Probably Both.
If you Google the difference between the terms “lawyer” and “attorney” you will get any number of websites with various explanations of...
tloojs
Jan 22, 20213 min read
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
The following essay is meant to demonstrate why we say that “Law students teach themselves the law; law school teaches them to think like...
tloojs
Jan 17, 202111 min read
Summary and Analysis of Published Opinions of the Court of Appeals, January 12, 2021
The first set of published opinions from the Court of Appeals of Virginia for 2021 includes its first reversal in a criminal case as well...
tloojs
Jan 13, 20217 min read
Why a Virginia Court of Appeals Blog?
The first question that will undoubtedly come to mind for those who have stumbled across (or, one may dare to hope, deliberately come to...
John S. Koehler
Jan 13, 202115 min read