Virginia: judge gives 3 years in plea deal for DUI manslaughter case of Nicholas Perry Hansel

Virginia: judge delays release of rejected plea deal in DUI manslaughter case of Nicholas Perry Hansel – In a Sept. 19 letter to the court, prosecutor Robert Joyce, Jr. argued the proposed plea agreement, if made public, “would most certainly be prejudicial to one or both sides, and thereby very likely taint the jury pool when the case is tried in the future.

The public’s right to know, he said, “does not and should not override both the accused’s and the Commonwealth’s right to a fair trial.”