http://www.snookandhaughey.com Criminal, trial and personal injury lawyers, serving Central Virginia and Charlottesville Wed, 16 May 2012 15:08:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/domestic-strangulation-and-domestic-homicide/ http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/domestic-strangulation-and-domestic-homicide/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 05:27:22 +0000 lloyd http://www.snookandhaughey.com/?p=577 The Maryland legislature's effort to punish domestic strangulation more harshly, while being rooted in a medical paper, is ultimately misguided. Domestic violence laws need to result in more interventions into abusive relationships, not necessarily more jail time.]]> http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/domestic-strangulation-and-domestic-homicide/feed/ 0 http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/love-family-sues-university-of-virginia-and-athletic-department-staff/ http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/love-family-sues-university-of-virginia-and-athletic-department-staff/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 22:40:37 +0000 lloyd http://www.snookandhaughey.com/?p=574 The Yeardley Love family has sued the University of Virginia over the fact that George Huguely killed their daughter. In bringing this suit, the attorneys claim that the University of Virginia has a "special relationship" with its students, which includes an agreement to protect them. The problem is that they probably DON'T have that duty.]]> http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/love-family-sues-university-of-virginia-and-athletic-department-staff/feed/ 0 http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/changes-are-coming-in-virginia-dui-laws-on-july-1/ http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/changes-are-coming-in-virginia-dui-laws-on-july-1/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 05:02:07 +0000 lloyd http://www.snookandhaughey.com/?p=573 Virginia DUI laws are changing effective July 1, requiring much greater use of ignition interlock devices. Look at the changes, and how they will affect people charged with DUI in Virginia.]]> http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/changes-are-coming-in-virginia-dui-laws-on-july-1/feed/ 0 http://www.snookandhaughey.com/criminal/foxfield-races-yield-lots-of-drunk-in-pubic-arrests/ http://www.snookandhaughey.com/criminal/foxfield-races-yield-lots-of-drunk-in-pubic-arrests/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:08:41 +0000 lloyd http://www.snookandhaughey.com/?p=571 Every year, Albemarle General District Court is flooded with alcohol-related offenses growing out of the Foxfield Races. If you have been arrested for underage possession of alcohol there is a diversion program that may be just fine for you, and you may not need a lawyer at all; for other charges, it would probably be useful to have counsel. Call us at 434-293-8185 if we can help.]]> http://www.snookandhaughey.com/criminal/foxfield-races-yield-lots-of-drunk-in-pubic-arrests/feed/ 0 http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/yeardley-love-family-sues-george-huguely/ http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/yeardley-love-family-sues-george-huguely/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:28:25 +0000 lloyd http://www.snookandhaughey.com/?p=568 Yeardley Love's mother has filed suit against George Huguely, alleging that he is responsible for her death. The suit is for more than $29 million. ]]> http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/yeardley-love-family-sues-george-huguely/feed/ 0 http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/justice-scalia-approaches-the-healthcare-debate-as-a-political-one/ http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/justice-scalia-approaches-the-healthcare-debate-as-a-political-one/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:37:17 +0000 lloyd http://www.snookandhaughey.com/?p=567 In the recent oral arguments over the healthcare debate, Justice Antonin Scalia showed in his questioning that the debate for him was about politics, not about law. ]]> http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/justice-scalia-approaches-the-healthcare-debate-as-a-political-one/feed/ 0 http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/foreign-drugs-cant-be-imported-to-kill-people/ http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/foreign-drugs-cant-be-imported-to-kill-people/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:11:00 +0000 lloyd http://www.snookandhaughey.com/?p=564 U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon has ruled that states who want to use sodium pentothal as a part of the mixture of drugs that goes into a lethal injection can't use imported pentothal, because the FDA has not certified that it is safe. Conservatives have the knee-jerk reaction -- "judicial activism" -- but any analysis of what "judicial activism" disproves that idea.]]> http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/foreign-drugs-cant-be-imported-to-kill-people/feed/ 0 http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/562/ http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/562/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:54:28 +0000 lloyd http://www.snookandhaughey.com/?p=562 The jury verdict that awarded the families of Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde $4 million each for their deaths during the 2007 rampage of Seung-Hui Cho is based on the jury's understanding that Tech administrators had a duty to protect their students, and that they failed in that duty.]]> http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/562/feed/ 0 http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/culpeper-murder-verdict-reversal-highlights-flaws-in-system/ http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/culpeper-murder-verdict-reversal-highlights-flaws-in-system/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:46:54 +0000 lloyd http://www.snookandhaughey.com/?p=558 Michael Hash was falsely imprisoned for 12 years on a capital murder conviction based on prosecutorial and police misconduct. And Virginia's trial procedures need to change so that this doesn't happen again.]]> http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/culpeper-murder-verdict-reversal-highlights-flaws-in-system/feed/ 0 http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/protestors-at-virginia-capitol-arrested/ http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/protestors-at-virginia-capitol-arrested/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 04:25:08 +0000 lloyd http://www.snookandhaughey.com/?p=555 Protestors at the Virginia Capitol were arrested on "unlawful assembly" charges, charges that will almost surely be thrown out.]]> http://www.snookandhaughey.com/news/protestors-at-virginia-capitol-arrested/feed/ 0