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After the European discovery of North America in the 15th century, European nations competed to establish colonies on the continent. In the late 16th century, the area claimed by England was well defined along the coast, but was very roughly marked in the west, extending from 34 to 48 degrees north latitude, or from the vicinity of Cape Fear in present-day North Carolina well into Acadia.
The Fairfax County police homicide unit investigated the shooting and provided its file to Fairfax Commonwealth's Attorney Raymond F. Morrogh in late 2013. [1] Torres was fired from the Fairfax County Police Department on July 31, 2015, due to violating the department's policies and procedures on the use of force.
Fairfax: Mohammed Kayani 81 Christopher Cornelius Goins: Black 27 M December 6, 2000 Richmond City: 5 murder victims [k] 82 Thomas Wayne Akers: White 31 M March 1, 2001 Franklin: Wesley Brant Smith 83 Christopher James Beck: White 26 M October 18, 2001 Arlington: Florence Marie Marks, David Kaplan, and William Miller 84 James Earl Patterson ...
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The Fairfax Circuit Court of the 19th Judicial Circuit, [1] is a court of general jurisdiction, serving the County and City of Fairfax, Virginia, in the United States. It is the largest trial court in Virginia and handles both civil and criminal cases. The Court comprises fifteen full-time judges. [2] Fairfax Courthouse main entrance
He was tried in Virginia rather than the District of Columbia in order to establish an impartial jury pool, and his death sentence was finalized in six years. [13] The last person to be sentenced to death in Virginia was Mark E. Lawlor, sentenced June 23, 2011, by the Honorable Randy I. Bellows of Fairfax County Circuit Court.
Dominic Daley and James Halligan were convicted of the murder of Marcus Lyon, a farmer who was found beaten and shot near Wilbraham, Massachusetts on 5 November 1805. There was very little evidence against the two men and the consensus of historians is that they were innocent and were convicted largely due to anti-Irish bigotry; both were legally exonerated in 1984, over a century after their ...