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When a police officer responds to a reported car accident, a common response is to write the driver a ticket for reckless driving. However, Virginia law is clear that the mere fact that the driver was involved in an auto accident is insufficient to prove a reckless...
Facing charges related to driving under the influence can be very stressful. If you’re a driver who lives in Virginia, you should be aware of the state’s DUI laws to understand your rights and responsibilities. Like other states, Virginia has specific guidelines for...
Virginia is a state that has chosen to criminalize the traffic infraction of speeding. If you are traveling 20 miles per hour above the posted speed limit, or above 85 miles per hour regardless of the speed limit, you can be charged with reckless driving. Reckless...
In Virginia, a person aged 21 or older may legally possess marijuana in public in an amount not exceeding one ounce. Possession of larger amounts in public or outside of the person’s residence remains unlawful, and the person possessing an amount of one ounce or...
Virginia continues to make it unlawful for an individual to sell, give, distribute, or possess with an intent to sell, give, or distribute marijuana. In fact, Section 18.2-248.1 of the Virginia Code, updated as recently as 2020, makes it a felony offense to distribute...
Virginia has criminalized making a verbal threat in a number of criminal laws in the Virginia Code. Interestingly, with only a few narrow exceptions, making a threat to harm another orally and in-person to an individual is not outlawed by the code of Virginia, while...
In 2015, Virginia began to protect individuals who summon police or emergency medical services to assist a person experiencing a drug overdose. The 2015 law provided the reporting party immunity from prosecution of drug possession and paraphernalia investigations that...