Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

Show Cause - Misdemeaner

If someone has 11 felony convictions (nothing since 1986), can they be show caused on a misdemeanor assault & battery? If the come back time is 35 years, how much of that is likely to be imposed?


Asked on 8/17/03, 11:24 pm

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Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: Show Cause - Misdemeaner

If parole and/or probation for these 11 felony convictions has expired more than ten years prior to the commission of the misdemeanor offense, "the come back time" as you term it

most likely cannot or will not be imposed against you under a Rule To Show Cause.

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Answered on 8/18/03, 4:07 pm


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