George W. Huguely V sat frozen with his mouth open and his hand resting on his chin, his gaze fixed on the Charlottesville police detective who told him that his ex-girlfriend, Yeardley Love, died by his hands.
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“UVa and its employees, officers and agents had a duty to protect and keep the students safe,” the suit says.
The presentations, set for May 15 and May 16, will begin with a 64-minute tape of George Huguely’s interrogation by Charlottesville police.
Sharon Love filed the civil suit against George Huguely, the former UVa lacrosse player convicted of murdering her daughter.
An attorney representing Yeardley Love's mother came before Judge Edward Hogshire, requesting access to the case’s evidence.
A former University of Virginia lacrosse player is set to be sentenced Aug. 30 for the beating death of his ex-girlfriend.
A jury Wednesday recommended that former U.Va. student-athlete George W. Huguely V serve 26 years in prison in the death of his ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love.
The jury in the George Huguely murder trial is deliberating.
Today the jury will prepare to render a verdict in the most closely watched Charlottesville murder trial in recent memory.
Jurors in the George Huguely murder trial have a three-day break from the courthouse between hearing closing arguments Saturday and beginning deliberations Wednesday.
The prosecution finished closing arguments in the murder trial of George W. Huguely V, with prosecutor David Chapman asking the jury to convict the former U.Va. lacrosse player on a felony murder charge.
The trial of George W. Huguely V, charged with first-degree murder in the 2010 slaying of former girlfriend Yeardley Love, is set to resume this morning.
The defense in the Huguely murder trial finished with all its experts save two doctors by 11 a.m. Thursday.
Judge Edward Hogshire tells jurors court will resume Friday morning.
“I’d seen it before, so it wasn’t something that caught me off guard,” he said of Huguely’s drunkenness.
Dr. Jan Leestma said damage to Love’s brain, particularly the brain stem area, was likely caused by CPR pushing oxygenated blood back into her oxygen-starved brain.
Scheduling remains a key concern in the case.
A neuropathologist said that the quick, twisted motion of Love’s head may have caused bleeding in the brain stem.
Forensic toxicologist Curt Harper testified that Love had in her system only one quarter of the dose of Adderall needed to begin producing toxic effects.
there has been hours of medical testimony, much of it repetitious.
Assistant chief medical examiner gives graphic descriptions of injuries suffered by Yeardley Love.
George Huguely's arms, hands, knuckles and legs showed bruises, abrasions and minor lacerations when he was arrested the day after the body of his former girlfriend Yeardley Love was discovered in May 2010 in her in apartment near the University of Virginia, investigators testified this morning.
Though drunkenness can be used to argue against intent, UVa law professor Anne M. Coughlin said juries tend to be skeptical of intoxication claims as a defense.
“She’s not dead. She’s not. She’s not. I don’t believe you,” he told police.
Teammate Brian Carroll described Huguely's drinking problem as worsening in the last year of Love's life.
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