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Luke. He refrains from doing any criminal defense work (even in other counties, which is permitted), instead supplementing his state-paid salary with estate, real estate, corporate and personal-injury work.
Rappahannock, like other neighboring jurisdictions, has seen a marked jump in the number of criminal cases to come before its courts in the eight years since he took the reigns from Washington attorney Doug Baumgartener.
“One indicator is that two years ago district court met three times a month and court was a half-day,” he said. Nowadays Judge Charles Foley hears cases four times a month, and all day.
Partly that’s the result of more people, more law enforcement officers and the wave of drug-related property crime. Rappahannock is also subject to “spillover crime” from high-growth counties like Fauquier and Culpeper. Residents of Page and Warren counties are also not unknown to the county jail.
But the small number of felony cases in the county — usually about five or six every two-month court term — permits Mr. Luke to take a
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