As Joan Turner Beale, in 1974 Joan completed her B.A. at CNC as Class Valedictorian; she also earned honors at William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe Law School. After retiring at sixty-five as General District Court Judge, Joan traveled Virginia evaluating sitting judges. The evaluations were use...
Probation is a sentencing option available to Virginia judges in Newport News and other communities throughout the commonwealth. Recognized as a community corrections alternative to jail or prison, probation offers a person convicted of committing a crime the opportunity to remain in the community under...
Newport argues that the court should have afforded less deference to the LHO's findings because the LHO adopted many of the Parents' proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law and failed to exercise independent judgment. In particular, Newport attacks the district court's decision to accep...