Virginia considers risk-based prison terms for sex offenders
Virginia lawmakers weigh a Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission plan to tie maximum prison terms to an offender's risk of reoffending. The system would triple penalties for high risk offenders and extend prison time to some lesser offenses, based on a risk assessment scoring factors such as age under 35, stepchild victim, low education, and prior arrests. Critics warn about fairness to youth and the less educated, while supporters say it reflects research on recidivism.
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Richmond
Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission
Rick Kern
Commission
Virginia
Kern
Kenneth W. Stolle
Virginia Beach
Stolle
Virginia Crime Commission
Kent Willis
American Civil Liberties Union
Religion Web site draws worldwide following of religious groups
HARLOTTESVILLE Va AP Massimo Introvigne of Italy uses www.religiousmovements.org as a detailed online encyclopedia of more than 250 religious groups. University of Virginia students in sociology class contribute profiles, teaching technology to promote tolerance and objective study of sects like Falun Gong and Marcus Garvey.
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Harlottesville
Massimo Introvigne
Italy
Wwwreligiousmovements.org
Introvigne
Center For Studies On New Religions
Torino
University of Virginia
Jeffrey Hadden
Hadden
China
Father Divine
International Peace Mission
Channeling
Marcus Garvey
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Jackie Fowler
Elizabeth Hagerty
Hagerty
Inmate Chooses Electric Chair Over Injection in Virginia
Russell W. Burket, 32, sentenced for 1993 murders of Katherine Tafelski and daughter Ashley, selected the electric chair over lethal injection. Burket, next to die, has an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court and seeks clemency. His lawyer says he is severely mentally ill and was not competent to stand trial.
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Richmond
Russel W. Burker
Virginia
Andrew A. Protogyrou
Norfolk
Rusty
Protogyrou
Burket
Katherine Tafelski
Ashley
Virginia Beach
Kenneth Manuel Stewart Jr
Greensville
Jarratt
Tafelskis
Ms. Tafelski
U.S. Supreme Court
Jim Gilmore
Daily Record Police blotters summarize multiple June incidents
Entries note a suspicious car fire near Wickham and Rogers streets with owner in North Carolina. a seven year old found riding an electric car on Park Avenue, later returned home. June 16 breach of peace arrest for David Sawyers of Princeton. June 17 burglary of a Princeton Avenue home with VCR and stereo stolen. Mercer Sheriff reports missing juvenile, several worthless checks, school alarm, drunken incident, altercation, fire at trash can, suspicious vehicle, and bank alarm false. Officers named include Lt Harman, Lt Walker, Sgt Powell, Deputies Haynes Coulter Hill Vicchio Mitchem.
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Wickham
Rogers Streets
North Carolina
P.W. Powell
Park Avenue
North Walker Street
W.L. Walker
Sgt
David Martin Sawyers
Princeton
W. L. Harman
Princeton Avenue
Bluefield
Bluefield Intermediate School
B.E. Vicchio
Raleigh
Stewart
H.L. Harmon
Ridgecrest
Hoge and
Fifth Streets
D. Mitchem
Wayne Street
Five Tazewell business burglaries investigated
In Tazewell County Virginia authorities investigate five burglaries reported between June 7 and 8 at the Tazewell Area Chamber of Commerce Richlands Area Chamber of Commerce Tazewell Farm Bureau Tazewell Veterans of Foreign Wars and Farm Bureau Insurance office. Money and items were stolen. A safe at the insurance agency was not entered. No arrests reported. Investigations involve sheriff's department plus Tazewell and Richlands police.
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Tazewell
Tazewell County
H.S. Caudill
Tazewell Area
Caudill
Sheriff’s Department
Couple charged after tanning bed taping in Virginia
In Rustburg Virginia a couple Jeffrey and Melinda Weeks were charged with unlawful use of a camera for allegedly taping two women using a tanning bed in their mobile home. Investigators seized a 20 minute tape and other videos from the Weeks residence.
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Rustburg, Va
Rustburg
Campell County
Jeffrey
Melinda Weeks
Crash injures Athens woman in 40-foot embankment plunge
Belinda Maria Evans 22 was critically injured Thursday when the pickup truck she drove left Pisgah Road, rolled down a 40 foot embankment and hit a tree. Rescue crews freed her after two hours. she was flown to Carilton Roanoke Memorial Hospital and admitted to the Neurotrauma ICU. Passenger Patricia Saunders 23 of Athens was stable at Princeton Community Hospital and may be transferred to Bowman Gray in North Carolina. The Mercer County Sheriff's deputy cited loss of control on a left curve.
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Princeton
Athens
Pisgah
Belinda Maria Evans
East River
TE. Gill
Mercer County Sheriff’s Department
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J.E. Coulter
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R.A. Hill
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