Legal Opinion
Jordan v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided February 22, 2018No. Record 161527PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY JUSTICE STEPHEN R. McCULLOUGH
Brian Wendall Jordan, an inmate, filed a petition to change his name. The trial court denied his petition, and Jordan asks us to reverse this decision. For the reasons stated below, we affirm the trial court's decision.
BACKGROUND
Brian Wendall Jordan was sentenced to a lengthy term of incarceration after he was convicted of several serious offenses: malicious wounding, robbery, first degree murder, aggravated malicious wounding, and burglary. A stipulation of facts indicates that, in one instance, he forced his way into the home of an elderly woman,…
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