Commonwealth's Attorney | Loudoun Independent

The Commonwealth’s Attorneys Office is unarguable a busy place to be right now with multiple murder investigations and numerous high profile trials in progress. Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Plowman and Chief Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney James Fisher sat down with the Loudoun Independent and talked about the challenges their office faces and provide an inside look into the operation of the prosecutor’s office and what drew them to choose this side of the law.

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Plowman and Fisher Go on the Record About Lansdowne Attack

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John L. Geddie

Loudoun Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Plowman and Chief Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney James Fisher recently sat down with the Loudoun Independent regarding the Bennett case.

The questions came fast, but Loudoun’s top prosecutors share their thoughts on the investigation, gang activity in Loudoun County and how their office will decide whether or not to pursue the death penalty.

Check Enforcement Program is Working Well

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John Toler

Three years after it was started, Loudoun County’s Check Enforcement Program has brought in more than $198,000, recovered in the form of restitution to victims of bad check writing. “We continue to receive positive feedback from the business community on this Program and our expectations are being met consistently each year,” said Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Plowman of the program, which he instituted in February 2006. “This past year we saw the use of the program take off as, the number of checks submitted in 2008 nearly doubled from prior years,” he added.