Under current Virginia laws, judges are required to impose at least a certain amount of jail or prison time on a host of crimes from guns to drugs to assaulting a police officer. That could change.
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On Saturday, February 6th, 2021, Virginia Delegate and candidate for Lt. Governor of VA , Hala Ayala, hosted a Survivors of Gun Violence Awareness panel, via Zoom, LIVE on Facebook. The event was made public for anyone to join in and watch,
“Delegate Hala Ayala Presents: National Gun Violence Survivors Week Roundtable.”
About 20 or so gun control activists were included, including members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America as well as Lori Haas of The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. There was also myself and two other gun rights activists who happened to be “allowed” in.
If you’re a gun rights activist in VA and don’t know who Lori Haas is… you should. Lori found her role in gun control activism back when her daughter, Emily, attended VA Tech in 2007. In April of that year, a deranged gunman opened fire within the campus, killing 32 and wounding 17, including Emily- who sustained two gunshot wounds and lived. VA Tech, like most schools, from
RICHMOND â Both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly have legislation to eliminate numerous mandatory minimum prison sentences from the state code.
The House of Delegates and Senate â both controlled by Democrats â each have different ideas of how many mandatory minimums theyâd like to scrub. So now comes the hard part: reaching a consensus on a final piece of legislation that both chambers will agree to.
The House bill from Del. Mike Mullin, D-Newport News, an assistant Hampton prosecutor, would repeal several mandatory minimum sentences primarily related to drug possession. His bill passed the House of vote of 58-24, with three Republicans joining the Democrats.
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The Virginia Senate’s Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that would eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for all but the most serious crimes.
While the Virginia Crime Commission voted to approve stripping all mandatory minimum sentences from state law, the commonwealth’s Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-6 to advance a bill with one exception.
“Class 1 felonies are not in the bill those Class 1 felonies deal with the death penalty,” said Sen. John Edwards, D-Roanoke, chairman of the committee and author of Senate Bill 1443.
In Virginia, a conviction for a Class 1 felony offers only two options: “The choices are death or life they’re not in the bill, which means that will remain the same,” Edwards said.