Former U.Va. lacrosse player Huguely gets 23 years for slaying ex
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A former University of Virginia lacrosse player who killed his ex-girlfriend in a drunken rage received a 23-year prison sentence Thursday in a case that forever changed the school’s attitudes toward relationship violence and made it easier for abuse victims in the state to obtain restraining orders. George W. Huguely V had […]
Huguely to be sentenced in beating death
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A Roman Catholic priest has testified that a former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend is a spiritual person who displayed no anger or aggression in his presence. The Rev. Joseph Scordo testified Thursday in Charlottesville at George W. Huguely V’s sentencing hearing. The Chevy Chase, man faces […]
Huguely wants conviction set aside
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend is appealing his conviction. Attorneys for George W. Huguely V filed a motion Friday in Charlottesville Circuit Court asking that his second-degree murder conviction be set aside for the May 2010 beating death of Yeardley Love, 22, of suburban Baltimore. […]
Huguely sentenced to 26 years in prison
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — In a trial that revealed the lives of elite athletes at a top-notch school, a former University of Virginia lacrosse player faces 26 years in prison for the beating death of his former girlfriend amid a swirl of betrayal, distrust, anger and a culture of drinking. The prosecutor who meticulously and methodically constructed […]
Grand jury indicts ex-UVa lacrosse player in death
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A grand jury has indicted a former University of Virginia lacrosse player on murder and other charges in the death of a member of the women’s team whom he had been dating. Besides first-degree murder, the Charlottesville Circuit Court grand jury on Monday indicted 23-year-old George Huguely of Chevy Chase, Md., on […]