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the city’s tally of 75 murders for 1986. “Look at how many kids are either the victim or the shooter.”
The police department’s research and planning office said six of the city’s murder victims this year have been age 17 or younger and seven of the known murderers have been juveniles.
The FBI says Richmond is third in the nation in murders per capita.
Lawyers back in school
RICHMOND — Virginia’s 13,000 practicing lawyers will be required to take eight hours of continuing legal education classes each year beginning in 1986, state bar officials announced Wednesday.
Michael J. Rost, deputy executive director of the Virginia Bar Association, said the Virginia Supreme Court last week approved his group’s proposal to require the courses for all of the state’s active lawyers.
As a result, lawyers must file a certified statement saying they have taken such a course as part of the annual application for license renewal. The first statement is due by July 1987.
Virginia becomes the 18th state to require such courses, Mr. Rost said. That is up from two in 1976,
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