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· 1/15/2010

Logan v. Com.

Citations

  • 688 S.E.2d 275
  • 279 Va. 288

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the trial court’s factual finding that an officer did not act in bad faith was a credibility finding that was binding on appeal unless plainly wrong or without evidence to support it
  • noting that, “in the civil context,” bad faith “connotes the ‘conscious doing of a wrong’” (citation omitted)
  • stating that findings relating to bad faith “are binding upon appeal unless they are plainly wrong or without evidence to support them”
  • stating that findings relating to bad faith “are binding upon appeal unless they are plainly wrong or without evidence to support them”
  • implementing such an approach, while defining “bad faith” as directed to scenarios in which “the search was motivated by bias, personal animus, a desire to harass, a conscious intent to circumvent the law, or a similar improper motive”
  • implementing such an approach, while defining “bad faith” as directed to scenarios in which “the search was motivated by bias, personal animus, a desire to harass, a conscious intent to circumvent the law, or a similar improper motive”

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Judges: Charles S. Russell

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