Lou Brooks Law

04/22/2020

The VA Supreme Court has extended the Judicial Emergency for an additional 21 days to May 17th. So No traffic court, misdemeanors charges, felony hearings, or Civil hearings other than emergency matters will be held by the courts unless the defendant is incarcerated.

03/28/2020

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/judicial-emergency-extended-in-virginia-pausing-court-cases-across-the-state

The extension, issued Friday, will extend the judicial emergency until April 26. It was initially scheduled to run until April 6.

03/09/2020

Sorry Your Honor, my clients been a little busy...For the last 23 YEARS! 😆

A Slidell Police Department officer pulled over a man for an expired license plate, when he realized the tag hasn't been renewed since 1997.

12/05/2019

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2019/12/05/crack-heroin-race-arrests-blacks-whites/2608781001/

A racial double standard has been hard-wired into the nation’s drug laws and criminal justice system since the heyday of the crack epidemic and continues today.

06/28/2019

06/27/2019

07/13/2018

This is continuing a trend in the right direction and I hope VA follows suit one day!

Grace period before unpaid ticket fines jump goes from 30 to 60 days under new legislation

07/06/2018

Your chance to be the Prosecutor:
So, do you prosecute the Misdemeanor shoplifters or do you let it slide because they helped catch a much much more serious Robbery Felon and possibly saved a life??

Recently, a very impressive video has attracted a lot of attention. The video starts with a man and a woman entering a shop together. It can be seen that the

06/21/2018