attempted murder

Virginia is not the most hospitable of places for criminal defendants, with its crabbed criminal discovery rules that lead to trial by fire, its harsh presumptions of no pretrial bail for too many felonies, and its absence of an automatic appeal from a felony trial...

When a criminal defendant is charged with multiple criminal counts, s/he might want to try to limit sentencing exposure by presenting a defense that guilt is not possible for more than one continuing offense. Sheng Jie Jin unsuccessfully tried the one continuing offense approach at...