Commonwealth v. FF

Apr 07, 2014

OUTCOME: Not Guilty

The defendant was charged with two counts of rape of a minor. The case was tried to a jury. The complainant and her mother testified that the crimes occurred.

United States v. Kerns

Jan 03, 2014

OUTCOME: 120 Months

The defendant was accused of being a member of in the Trey Nine Bloods in Northern Virginia. The defendant was charged with conspiracy to commit racketeering, violence in aid of racketeering, conspira ... cy to distribute crack cocaine, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, and using a firearm during a crime of violence. According to the statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office “Operation Ruby Red,” a multi-year investigation that stretched into neighboring states and involved the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Fairfax County Police Department, the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force, Hampton Police Department, Manassas City Police Department and the United States Marshal Service in carrying out the operation. A 34-page indictment filed at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia details spread of the gang throughout the region since 2008. The leader of the gang, along with other recruits, allegedly forced women to travel across state lines to engage in prostitution. The indictment describes a conspiracy to deal cocaine, heroin, marijuana, ecstasy and prescription painkillers for the good of the gang. One of the gang members allegedly cornered another gang member in a Fauquier County apartment and used knives to split open the gang member's face, from mouth to ear. Eleven days later, members of the gang shot at three people at Cedar Lee Middle School because of a dispute one of the people had with a member of the gang. The defendant pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 120 months which was approximately 100 months below the recommended guideline sentence

United States v.Osman Yusuf, No. 12-4700 (4th Cir. November 14, 2013)

Nov 14, 2013

OUTCOME: 10 Months incarceration

The defendant was one of thirteen convicted of smuggling millions of dollars' worth of the illegal African drug khat into the U.S. all received prison sentences of one year or less, significantly short ... of what the government sought in a case that cost millions of dollars to pursue. Three of the five defendants received terms ranging from four to six months. Two received terms of one year. Prosecutors at U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, had been seeking two years or more for each.

Maryland v. Doring

Feb 11, 2004

OUTCOME: Dismissed

State prosecutors have dropped charges against two men indicted last year for a 20-year-old murder in Bethesda, citing a lack of evidence to prosecute. Grand juries indicted Doring, for the 1983 mur ... der of a woman, and the related burglary of her home. The indictments followed a reopening of the case requested three years ago by survivors, who felt the case had never been resolved. The state was unable to gather enough evidence to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt, so prosecutors told Circuit Court Judges Ann S. Harrington on Jan. 14 and S. Michael Pincus on Jan. 15 that they would not continue to prosecute the case. "This isn't a case of a guilty man walking free on a technicality," said Doring's attorney Daniel Lopez. "This is a case of a wrongly accused man being set free." Attorneys for both sides point to a set of palm and fingertip prints found at the crime scene in 1983, but that have since been misplaced, as contributing factors in the outcome. The prints did not match Doring in the 1980s and would have proved his innocence, Lopez said, adding, "so it was really meaningless that they didn't have them." http://ww2.gazette.net/gazette_archive/2004/200407/bethesda/news/201411-1.html

Joel Jones v. Commonwealth, 38 Va. App. 231, 563 S.E. 2d 364 (2002)

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