The Crime Report
MARCH 7, 2023
Tracy Pennington from Ripley, West Virginia was charged with felony child concealment and conspiracy after police entered her home without a warrant and found her daughter hiding behind the dresser.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 3, 2023
Tracy Pennington lives in Ripley, West Virginia. Prosecutors charged Pennington in state court with felony child concealment and conspiracy. The West Virginia Supreme Court denied her appeal. West Virginia , Pennington asks the justices to clarify whether “reason to believe” is equivalent to probable cause.
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ABA Journal
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
A suspended West Virginia lawyer who fled the country has pleaded guilty to a felony charge after being accused of overbilling for criminal defense…
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The appeal was filed by Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, who in 2015 was convicted of conspiring to violate federal safety standards before a 2010 explosion at a West Virginia mine that killed 29 people. After his release from prison, Blankenship announced that he intended to run for the U.S.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 27, 2022
Following an explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia that killed 29 miners, federal prosecutors charged Don Blankenship, then the CEO of the company that owned and operated the mine, with willfully violating safety regulations.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JULY 6, 2017
Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. What is disputed is whether it is just or legal to convict Ward of felony crimes for acting peacefully and responsibly to prevent greater harm to the climate.” DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Five former correctional officers, and a former lieutenant, at the Southern Regional Jail in West Virginia have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the 2022 death of an incarcerated man who was beaten while handcuffed and restrained in an interview room and later a jail cell, Leah Willingham report for the Associated Press.
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