Murder is the most serious of criminal allegations, requiring the dedicated criminal defense representation of experienced attorneys. Our attorneys have experience in the complex setting of a Virginia first degree murder jury trial. Our firm has also represented attempted murder, malicious wounding, and other serious criminal charges in front of Virginia juries.
First and Second Degree Murder
Murder, other than capital murder, by poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving, or by any willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or in the commission of, or attempt to commit, arson, rape, forcible sodomy, inanimate or animate object sexual penetration, robbery, burglary or abduction, except as provided in § 18.2-31, is murder of the first degree, punishable as a Class 2 felony. All murder other than capital murder and murder in the first degree is murder of the second degree and is punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for not less than five nor more than forty years.
Virginia Code § 18.2-32
Felony Homicide
The killing of one accidentally, contrary to the intention of the parties, while in the prosecution of some felonious act other than those specified in §§ 18.2-31 and 18.2-32, is murder of the second degree and is punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for not less than five years nor more than forty years.
Virginia Code § 18.2-33
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Our Virginia criminal defense attorney can help those accused of murder throughout Northern Virginia including Alexandria, Arlington, & Fairfax.
