🌱 What crucial phone evidence are lawyers fighting over in the UVA case?

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• What crucial phone evidence are lawyers fighting over in the UVA case?

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📰 News we're reading

• Attorneys clash over evidence in former UVA football player's rape case (cvillerightnow.com) — A former University of Virginia football player’s rape case is moving toward a November jury trial as lawyers battle over access to key phone evidence in Charlottesville Circuit Court. The judge has ordered prosecutors to turn over a data dump of the complainant’s phone, while both sides signal that text messages between the two will be central to the case.
   

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Saturday August 29

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• Literary Masterpieces Book Group: Treasure Island
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Thursday August 27

• Chamber 101: Maximize Your Membership
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  Gordon Avenue Library 1500 Gordon Avenue, Charlottesville, VA 22903
  3:30 pm
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  5:00 pm
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  6:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Charlottesville

• Charlottesville Inclusive Media continues internship program for its second year (cvilletomorrow.org)
• Charlottesville ranked 10th-best city for work by Indeed (29news.com)
• Charlottesville won't delay Sept. 1 opening of Holiday Dr. shelter (cvillerightnow.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A jeweler sells watches and a jailer watches cells. (Thank you Jean D. for sending it in!)
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