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Jury deadlocked,
mistrial for Best
By Jan LaValley
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The case of 16-year-old Joy Best, who was charged with distribution of marijuana at Rappahannock County High School last February, came before a jury at the Rappahannock County Circuit Court Friday.
Best, who had been tried in Rappahannock’s Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court in October, appealed the case.
Judge H. Dudley Payne, of J&D court, had determined to charge Best with 30 days in detention, 10 suspended, 150 hours of community service, a six month suspension from being allowed to obtain $ driver’s license, probation until the age of 18 and the cost of the proceedings.
In court Friday the Commonwealth called a series of witnesses, most of them juveniles, in an attempt to prove their case.
Capt. Jeff Brown, of the Rappahannock Sheriff’s Office, Mike Tupper, assistant principal at RCHS, and Kelly Settle, secretary and book keeper at RCHS also testified.
But a large part of the commonwealth’s case was based cm the testimony of Julie Payne, a RCHS student also charged in the case who cooperated with
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