Catching COVID-19: True Crime Stories (Rounding *Up* the Usual Suspects)

ROGUES GALLERY: UNTOUCHABLE RALPH BLACK FACE NORTHAM

"You have a right to remain silent" is a Miranda Warning Right with which most are familiar, but, at least former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, and his legal counsel, have decided that that also includes a right to attempt to evade the Alexandria Sheriff, as well as the U.S. Marshals, in evasion of a summons, which is usually a felonious violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 1512, punishable by fine and/or up to 20 years in prison, and a predicate offense under the federal racketeering statute, but, perhaps the pediatrician at the Children's Hospital for the King's Daughters is a king, and need not worry about the law, being above it.

But, for one former childhood protege of a legendary civil rights and criminal defense attorney, chasing the former Virginia Governor has just been a nostalgic reminder to him of days coordinating on drug stings as a legal specialist in the Ranger Regiment, and chasing spies and terrorists in strategic counterintelligence. And, with the recent appointment of a judge to preside over a case to convene a grand jury investigation into the death of a prominent religious leader in Chesterfield, Virginia at the beginning of the pandemic, it looks like Black Face, the Untouchable, will finally have his day in court, faced with the problem of explaining exactly why he had decided to avoid court if he was innocent.

And that is just one of several cases now moving forward for one litigation hobbyist who spent his pandemic in courtrooms trying to catch a novel coronavirus.