Charlottesville is still a sizable urban area and Chris isn't some hillbilly living in a one-room tarpaper shack in the hills. "Semi-rural" would be more accurate since Ruckersville is so close to Charlottesville.
Yeah, I'd mostly agree with that. Ruckersville is definitely more on the rural side, though. Really, it's pretty much an exurb of Charlottesville at this point - half commuter traffic to C-Ville, half people who work locally.
Glad another Virginian (I assume) is here to clarify.
Let's just say that I am very familiar with the Charlottesville / Staunton / Harrisonburg triangle and leave it at that.
Charlottesville is well known in the country but it's roughly in the middle of nowhere. You drive through nothing to get to it and almost everything there is sparse also. Charlottesville could be described as a small town that accidentally thinks its a city.
That pretty much describes its geographic location to a T. Staunton is 45 minutes West on I-64; Richmond is about 75 minutes to the East. In-between, there's just not much of anything, and no truly major North-South routes in or out. Frankly, if it wasn't for UVA, the town would be lucky to be half the size that it is.
The only really populated parts of VA are NOVA (Alexandria et al), Henrico County (Richmond only, basically), Hampton Roads (Norfolk, VA Beach, Chesapeake, Newport News, etc), and MAYBE York/James City County (Yorktown and Williamsburg). Even the last two are well known but I'd hardly call most of the cities "densely populated).
Using Albemarle County (of which Charlottesville is the county seat) as an example, I recall it as having a population of around 105,000. Charlottesville has a population of about 45,000. Two-thirds of the residents of the county are rural, and this is a pattern that's seen throughout Virginia as a whole, exceptions above notwithstanding.
I doubt Chris recorded anything incriminating (he records stuff for interaction, but in this case Barb was his interaction, so no recording neeeded),
This brings up something I've been mulling over re: ILJ's recording of her calls with Chris.
Basically, the statute in Virginia that covers recording of phone calls is
§ 8.01-420.2. Limitation on use of recorded conversations as evidence. At its core, there are two parts to it: one establishes that in order to be able to submit a recording of a call as evidence in a civil case, all parties on the call were required to be aware that the call was being recorded. The second part states that, with certain limitations, a call that was recorded without notification but that demonstrates criminal activity
can be submitted into evidence in a civil case.
I'd like one of our actual lawyers to weigh in on this, because the second part has me somewhat confused. If the recording shows criminal activity, why only allow it in a civil case? I feel like there's something I'm missing here.
Private citizens not acting in a professional capacity do not have a duty to report in Virginia. ALL PERSONS have a duty to report elder abuse in Texas (with incest specifically mentioned), where she was at the time, and the way I read the law it doesn't seem to specify where the crime-to-be-reported takes place. I highly doubt Texas would bother prosecuting this for a crime in a distant state though.
Agree re: Texas being unlikely to prosecute her. However, my interest in this angle was more how much in alignment the two states' laws may be. What I can potentially see happening is that she's subpoenaed to appear (either in-person or remotely) before the court in VA; given that she was one of two primary sources for the recorded material, she's a witness.
Winning strategy for the state: Find the best, most attractive big-boobied female assistant prosecutor and Chris will just do whatever she says, ignoring his own (male) attorney. Possibly while beating off under the table.
If you can't see both of his hands, it's probably safe to assume that he's jerking it. And even if you can, he's likely figured out a way to trib himself off.
