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Virginia’s limits on relief for bypassed preliminary hearings

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Photo from website of U.S. District Court (W.D. Mi.).

Today, October 28, a split Virginia Court of Appeals put firm limits on criminal defendants’ possiblity of obainining judicial relief where a preliminary hearing has not been held. Wright v. Virginia (Oct. 18, 2008). 

Jon Katz.