· 1/15/2010
Logan v. Com.
Citations
- 688 S.E.2d 275
- 279 Va. 288
How courts have described this case
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- 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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