Prosecution witnesses
Fairfax ruling allows comfort dog for criminal complainant
						Fairfax ruling this month from the Circuit Court allows the presence of a comfort / facility dog with a testifying sexual assault complainant, after reviewing Virginia's very liberal law allowing such dogs for both sides' witnesses, and reviewing the state of the law in several...					
					
					
				Prosecutors must not tell witnesses not to talk with defense lawyers
						Prosecutors must NOT tell or even hint at cops and other witnesses not to talk with defense lawyers. Specifically, in a criminal matter, a lawyer "shall not" request "a person other than a client to refrain from voluntarily giving relevant information to another party." Va....					
					
					
				
