Hawes Spencer
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Contributor at The Daily Progress
Journalist, entrepreneurial outdoor educator reviving #Akademia; author of "Summer of Hate" about Charlottesville's racial violence, [email protected]
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4 days ago |
dailyprogress.com | Hawes Spencer
New information, that a doddering doctor was prescribing mind-altering drugs to a Charlottesville socialite who later pleaded guilty to child sex crimes, has prompted a reevaluation of the case on the eve of her sentencing in federal court. Eleanor Hunton Hoppe, the 47-year-old scion of a prominent Richmond legal family and the ex-wife of a federal judge in Charlottesville, pleaded guilty last year to one count of distributing child pornography.
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1 week ago |
dailyprogress.com | Hawes Spencer
It was before 7 a.m. on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend when the wife of Charlottesville public defender Donald Bellah, asleep inside the couple's rural Albemarle County residence, was awakened by two FBI agents. They told her they wanted to speak with her husband. Around that same time, other agents were arriving at other lawyers' homes. "There was no attempt to contact any one of us other than just showing up at our houses at the same time," Bellah told The Daily Progress.
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1 week ago |
dailyprogress.com | Hawes Spencer
The trial of the young man accused of killing his stepfather, prominent Charlottesville businessman Phaedrus Acgtblu, has been postponed to late August. Ian LeGallo-Malone, 24, was originally set to head to court in late April.
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1 week ago |
newsadvance.com | Hawes Spencer
With fees capped on many cases, people sometimes wonder how court-appointed attorneys earn their living, but according to a recent court ruling, one Charlottesville lawyer did it by padding his bills. After a civil complaint by the Virginia State Bar, a three-judge panel ordered Michael Joseph Hallahan II, who once ran for public office on a vow to get government "hands out of the residents' pockets," to pay back overbilled amounts and took away his law license for 120 days.
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1 week ago |
dailyprogress.com | Hawes Spencer
With fees capped on many cases, people sometimes wonder how court-appointed attorneys earn their living, but according to a recent court ruling, one Charlottesville lawyer did it by padding his bills. After a civil complaint by the Virginia State Bar, a three-judge panel ordered Michael Joseph Hallahan II, who once ran for public office on a vow to get government "hands out of the residents' pockets," to pay back overbilled amounts and took away his law license for 120 days.
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The Supreme Court of Virginia lets court-appointed lawyers track their own hours and bill up to $90 per hour.
Charlottesville lawyer Michael Hallahan has been suspended from practicing law and ordered to pay back thousands after a panel says he overbilled clients. https://t.co/YAyOvHfdK0
The trouble began on January 4 on Interstate 64 at mile marker 110.7, near Crozet. Arriving to the crash scene around 2:35 p.m., State Trooper =McCoy found a BMW partially in the left lane with two people in pain and advising him that the young man driving the truck had fled.
A young Afton father recently accused of killing his 6-week-old infant faces even more charges after allegedly letting his father-in-law take the blame for a car crash. https://t.co/XO5n2M8NdT
My biggest surprise in reporting this story was finding out that there's a fairly recent law forbidding Virginia's public universities from asking students if they've ever been arrested.
After the 2010 killing of UVa student, the school implemented a system to crack down on student criminal records. It didn't stop a shooting that killed three 12 years later. https://t.co/S6cUeRCTCy
