I played in my First USCF Rated Tournament, the North Carolina Open,
in 1956. As a tournament player for more than 50 years, just about
everybody in chess knows me or has heard my name.

The USCF has annual revenues of $3.2 million, down from $6.5 million
at its peak. $3.2 million is enough for us to live very well. Yet, the
USCF has lost money for 9 of the last 11 years. There is no excuse for
this!

Since I was elected to the board, I have been fulfilling a campaign
promise to examine the books and records in detail to find out how and
why we lost this money. I have exposed corruption and improper
payments. One board member was forced to resign because of my
discoveries.

I have opened doors to the inner sanctum, revealing secrets the
insiders did not want revealed. I have received an award for "Shining
Light on the United States Chess Federation 2007".

I have only one vote on the board. I have not been able to stop the
improper payments and the financial hemorrhaging. Optimists on the
board say we will lose ONLY $50,000 this year. I say unless immediate
measures are taken, we will lose AT LEAST $150,000 and possibly
considerably more.

In meetings with the board, I have consistently advocated specific
changes that must be made RIGHT NOW to stop losses by increasing
revenues and reducing expenses. Other board members say it is
POLITICALLY UNACCEPTABLE to make any changes now and this must wait
until after the election.

AFTER THE ELECTION will be too late!!

I am a man of action. Everybody who knows me will tell you I get
things done. Two things we need to do are expand scholastic chess and
elderly chess. As people age, they want to keep their minds active.
Tournament chess would be an ideal way to help them accomplish this.
The baby boomers are a vast pool of potential members.

You will have seen strident attacks by some of my election opponents
and their anonymous Internet trolls. You should ask yourself, "Why do
all these people keep attacking Sam Sloan? Is it because he really is
one of the worst people in the world, or is it because, since he was
elected last year, their gravy train has slowed?"

Most of the other candidates and continuing board members are
insiders, the same people who were there when the USCF lost $2
million. Are you going to keep them there or return them to power? Are
you going to believe they will bring prosperity to the USCF if
elected, when their actual record is one of milking the membership
funds for their own benefit?

I have specific plans and programs which I believe will bring
prosperity back to the USCF. I am available by phone or email to
discuss this at any time. Are you going to give the USCF a chance to
prove that it can be done, or are you going to return control of your
federation to the same crusty curmudgeons who lost the $2 million in
the first place?

"samsloan" wrote in message
oups.com...

I have only one vote on the board. I have not been able to stop the
improper payments and the financial hemorrhaging. Optimists on the
board say we will lose ONLY $50,000 this year.

Which optimists?

I say unless immediate
measures are taken, we will lose AT LEAST $150,000 and possibly
considerably more.

What measures?

In meetings with the board, I have consistently advocated specific
changes that must be made RIGHT NOW to stop losses by increasing
revenues and reducing expenses.

What could those be?

Other board members

Who?

say it is
POLITICALLY

What does that word mean in this context? Some unnamed board member[s] do
not wish to raise the issue of staff performance because it will have
adverse effect on their own prospects?

If there is something to do, that can specifically be done, then by all
means be as specific in your reporting of it - otherwise it all to do with
'others' and nothing to do with poor you! This, quite often is what others
say too, they say it is others problem.

UNACCEPTABLE to make any changes now and this must wait
until after the election.

AFTER THE ELECTION will be too late!!

I am a man of action. Everybody who knows me will tell you I get
things done.

What any electorate is looking for are people who will get things done - but
the tone of this missive is you cannot get things done because of the vague
postures you suggest of the others, about the vague issues you raise,
without mentioning what is to be done.

I can point that out from here.

Phil Innes

Two things we need to do are expand scholastic chess and
elderly chess. As people age, they want to keep their minds active.
Tournament chess would be an ideal way to help them accomplish this.
The baby boomers are a vast pool of potential members.

You will have seen strident attacks by some of my election opponents
and their anonymous Internet trolls. You should ask yourself, "Why do
all these people keep attacking Sam Sloan? Is it because he really is
one of the worst people in the world, or is it because, since he was
elected last year, their gravy train has slowed?"

Most of the other candidates and continuing board members are
insiders, the same people who were there when the USCF lost $2
million. Are you going to keep them there or return them to power? Are
you going to believe they will bring prosperity to the USCF if
elected, when their actual record is one of milking the membership
funds for their own benefit?

I have specific plans and programs which I believe will bring
prosperity back to the USCF. I am available by phone or email to
discuss this at any time. Are you going to give the USCF a chance to
prove that it can be done, or are you going to return control of your
federation to the same crusty curmudgeons who lost the $2 million in
the first place?

A felon is a man of action, after all :-)

1. Sloan writes:

http://www.uschess.org/forums/viewto...?p=37964#37964


"The delegates have voted to give me 100 words to explain my case in
Virginia. I have eight children. One of them is Shamema, whom many of
you met when I brought her to international chess tournaments. When
Shamema was eight years old, she was kidnapped by persons unrelated to
us and taken to Virginia. When I came to Virginia to try to rescue my
kidnapped daughter, I was arrested, tried and convicted of attempted
abduction of my daughter and failure to appear for trial."


*******


2. On June 28, 1993, Judge Marilyn Dolan Go wrote:



http://samsloan.com/judgego.htm



" [...]

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

The facts giving rise to plaintiff's [i.e., Sloan's] claims are set
forth in a 316-paragraph, 50 page, seven-count complaint. Construing
the allegations in the complaint liberally (particularly because
plaintiff is pro se), McNeil v. United States, 113 S. Ct. 1980, 1984
(1993), and accepting them as true, Kossick v. United Fruit Co., 365
U.S. 731 (1961), the pertinent facts may be distilled to the following
sequence of events:

Dispute over Custody of Shamema Honzagool Sloan

Plaintiff has made a career as a chess manager, author, journalist,
and securities dealer. pp. 43, 110. His daughter, Shamema Honzagool
Sloan, was born on October 15, 1981 in New York City to his wife,
Honzagool, a native of Pakistan. pp. 44. Honzagool was awarded custody
of Shamema in May 1982 by the Bronx Supreme Court; in August of that
year Honzagool returned to Pakistan, where she has apparently
remained, leaving Shamema in the United States. par. 49. Plaintiff
placed Shamema in the care of Shelby Roberts of Madison Heights,
Virginia from November 1982 to August 1986, paying her $110 per week.
pp. 50-51. Plaintiff alleges that he had to hide Shamema in Virginia
because he feared the Black Muslim Underground Militant Organization
from Pakistan would try to kidnap her. par. 50.

Plaintiff filed a petition for custody of Shamema before Lynchburg
Family Court in September 1983 and alleges that Judge Dale Harris
"refused to set that matter down for a hearing." par. 98. On January
13, 1986, plaintiff filed a petition for custody of Shamema in the
Amherst county Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. par. 100. On
April 2, 1986, after hearing, Judge Lawrence Janow entered an order
granting temporary legal custody to plaintiff and temporary physical
custody to the present custodians, Charles and Shelby Roberts, unnamed
in the order. The plaintiff was given visitation rights provided that
he not take Shamema out of state without a court order. The case was
continued until August 25.

[footnote 1] Although plaintiff does not specifically refer to this
hearing and resulting order in the complaint, he subsequently
submitted a copy of the order to this court.

On August 25, 1986, Judge Janow held a conference attended by the
Roberts, their attorney, Frank Davidson III, the plaintiff and his
attorney Stephen Martin, and J. Thompson Shrader, the court-appointed
guardian litem for Shamema. That day, Judge Janow issued a decision
awarding physical custody of Shamema to the plaintiff effective
September 7, 1986, and allowing the Roberts, "reasonable overnight
visitation" rights "as Counsel agrees". The order provided for
maintenance of the status quo and allowed Shamema to be enrolled at
the Temple Baptist school, where she had been enrolled before, rather
than public school. par. 106; see also order dated August 25, 1986, a
copy of which was submitted with plaintiff's letter of April 18, 1993.

Plaintiff states that he, a converted, practicing Muslim, did not want
his daughter to attend a Christian school. par. 108. Apparently for
that reason, plaintiff left Virginia with his mother and Shamema that
night and, a few weeks later, flew to Argentina where plaintiff
attended a chess tournament. pp. 51, 3.07-110. The plaintiff, his
mother, and his daughter eventually settled for the next four years in
the United Arab Emirates, where plaintiff worked as a columnist for a
local newspaper.

Charles Roberts, through his attorney, Frank Davidson III, filed a
custody Petition an August 27, 1986. par. 52. Since plaintiff had
already left the state, Roberts never personally served plaintiff with
the papers, and, instead, obtained leave to publish a notice of
service in the Amherst New Era Progress, a local county weekly. pp.
143, 227. On September 4, the court rescinded that portion of the
August 25 order that gave physical custody of Shamema to plaintiff
effective September 7 and left physical custody either with the
Roberts after that date, or with the Amherst County Department of
Social Services with leave to place the child "with any suitable
persons, including Charles and Shelby Roberts." Plaintiff's removal of
Shamema from the Commonwealth of Virginia in violation of the April 2
order resulted in his arrest twice on the basis of a federal
kidnapping warrant, once in Guam, and once in Hawaii, but the charge
was dropped after Lynchburg officials refused to pay the cost of
extradition from these locations. pp. 17, 20-21, 128-29, 130-31. Judge
Janow also issued a nationwide detention order for Shamema. par. 146.

[...]

Return to the United States

Plaintiff alleges that the Roberts also hired Boonchoo Yensabai to
track down and return Shamema to Virginia. par. 192. Plaintiff claims
that Mr. Yensabai threatened and coerced Vithanage Shanthilatha
("Shanti"), his wife and the mother of Jessica Sloan, to assist him in
returning Shamema from the United Arab Emirates to the United States.
par. 196. On October 7, 1990, Shanti took Shamema, Jessica, and
Michael to Abu Dhabi and picked up airline tickets to the United
States that had been sent by the Roberts. pp. 199, 202-204. On October
9, Shanti, Shamema, and Jessica arrived in Washington, D.C., where
they were met by the Roberts taken to Virginia. par. 205. Michael was
left behind with a stranger and eventually returned to plaintiff. pp.
202, 206.

Plaintiff and Michael returned to the United States on November 9,
1990. par. 216. on November 13, plaintiff went to the Amherst County
Department of Social Services to meet case worker Richard Groff, who
told him he could see Shamema. pp. 220, 224 . Upon his arrival he was
arrested and subsequently charged with contempt for disobeying Judge
Janow's August 25, 1986 court order and for failing to appear in court
on September 8, 1986. par. 22, 224-229. Mr. Groff also presented him
with an order dated October 24, 1990 enjoining plaintiff from having
any contact with Shamema. pp. 224, 226. That evening, plaintiff was
brought before Judge Janow, who stated that the Amherst County
Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court had continuing jurisdiction over
Shamema's custody proceeding and raised plaintiff's bail from $1,000
to $10,000. pp. 231-33. While he was in jail, plaintiff was served
with custody petitions for Jessica and Michael Sloan. pp. 236. Also,
while he was in jail, plaintiff claims that Officer McFarland allowed
Sharon Haberer, whom plaintiff describes as a "co-religionist of
Charles Roberts,- par. 237, to take his son, Michael, from the home of
plaintiff's friend. pp. 31-32, 225, 239. She then brought Michael to
New York City. par. 240. Later that month, plaintiff traveled to Far
Rockaway to talk to Sharon and David Haberer. pp. 243-44. He was
arrested on charges of "aggravated harassment" of Sharon Haberer and
her husband. par. 246. These charges were later dropped. par. 248.

In early 1991, plaintiff got in touch with his wife Rankoth Pedigedera
Dayawathie, the mother of Michael and George, who was staying with the
Haberers and the two boys. Plaintiff picked the three of them up in
New York City and drove them back to his mother's house in Lynchburg.
par. 249. Soon thereafter, he also got in touch .with Shanti, who had
been staying with the Roberts along with her daughter, Jessica, and
Shamema. par. 251-53. Shanti and Jessica stayed in the Lynchburg house
for a few days, then left and later moved to Oakland, California. pp.
23, 254.

In July of 1991, the Amherst County Juvenile and Domestic Relations
Court awarded sole custody of Shamema to the Roberts and directed that
plaintiff could visit her only under the supervision of the Amherst
County Department of Social Services. pp. 257, 265-66. On September 4,
1991, during a supervised visit, plaintiff was arrested on charges of
the attempted kidnapping of Shamema. pp. 24, 267. This act as the
basis for his recent conviction for attempted abduction. Steve
Vaughan, World Traveler Found Guilty in Daughter's Kidnap Attempt,
Lynchburg News & Advance, Jan. 14, 1993, at C-1, C-7."


*******


3. On October 19, 1993, the Virginia Court of Appeals issued the
following order:

http://www.samsloan.com//weight.htm

VIRGINIA:

In The Court of Appeals of Virginia on Tuesday the 19th day of
October, 1993.

M. Ismail Sloan, a/k/a
Samuel Howard Sloan,

Appellant,

against

Record No. 0934-93-3
Circuit Court Nos. CR91003195-00 and
CR92003936-01


Commonwealth of Virginia,

Appellee.

From the Circuit Court of the City of Lynchburg
Before Judges Benton, Coleman and Willis


Appellant's motion to not consider appellee's brief in opposition is
granted. The brief in opposition was not timely filed, and no motion
for extension of time was filed. Rule 5A:13.

This petition for appeal is granted in part and denied in part. And an
appeal is awarded to the petitioner from a judgment of the Circuit
Court of the City of Lynchburg, dated January 13, 1993, with respect
to the following question:

Whether the language of the indictment alleging a felony violation of
bond specifically by reason of appellant's failure to appear on
January 10, 1992 presents a fatal variance from the evidence
presented.

No bond is required. The clerk is directed to certify this action to
the trial court and to all counsel of record.

Pursuant to Rule 5A:25, an appendix is required in this appeal and
shall be filed by the appellant at the time of the filing of the
opening brief.

The remainder of the petition for appeal is denied for the following
reason:

"When considering the sufficiency of the evidence on appeal of a
criminal conviction, we must view all the evidence in the light most
favorable to the Commonwealth and accord to the evidence all
reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom." Traverso v.
Commonwealth, 6 Va. App. 172, 176, 366 S.E.2d 719, 721 (1988).

An order of the circuit court awarded custody of appellant's daughter,
Shamema Honzagool Sloan, to Mr. and Ms. Roberts. On September 5, 1991,
appellant visited with his daughter at the home of appellant's mother.
Richard Groff, who was present to supervise the visit, testified that
appellant took his daughter to an awaiting rental car. After appellant
started the car, Groff opened the door and grabbed the steering wheel.
Appellant accelerated, dragging Groff approximately 100 yards, and
attempted to push Groff away from the car. After a struggle ensued,
Groff broke the key in the ignition, and Groff removed the daughter
from appellant's rental car.

The evidence further proved that appellant had rented a car using the
name Richard Bozulich. The rental was for a one-way trip from
Lynchburg, Virginia to Greenville, South Carolina. Among the documents
found in appellant's possession on September 5, 1991, were two airline
tickets for travel from Greenville, South Carolina to the Orient and
back. The tickets were in the names of Richard Bozulich and S.
Honzagool. Appellant also had in his possession his passport, his
daughter's passport, and his daughter's birth certificate. Appellant
mentioned he had a suitcase in the trunk of the car on that day.

The jury believed the testimony of the Commonwealth's witnesses. "The
weight which should be given to the evidence and whether the testimony
of a witness is credible are questions which the fact finder must
decide." Bridgeman v. Commonwealth, 3 Va. App. 523, 528, 351 S.E.2d
598, 601 (1986). The testimony of the Commonwealth's witnesses was not
inherently incredible or unreliable. This evidence proved beyond a
reasonable doubt that appellant intended to remove his daughter from
the Commonwealth of Virginia on September 5, 1991.

A Copy,

Teste:

Cynthia L. McCoy, Acting Clerk

By:

Deputy Clerk

CERTIFICATE OF CLERK

I, Cynthia L. McCoy, Acting Clerk of the Court of Appeals of Virginia,
do hereby certify that on October 19, 1993 an appeal was awarded as
described in the order to which this certificate is appended. A copy
of this certificate and a copy of the order to which it is appended
were this day mailed to the trial court indicated in the order and to
all counsel of record.

Given under my hand this 19th day of October, 1993.

Cynthia L. McCoy, Acting Clerk

By:

Deputy Clerk

On 3 Apr, 19:53, wrote:
A felon is a man of action, after all :-)

1. Sloan writes:

http://www.uschess.org/forums/viewto...?p=37964#37964

"The delegates have voted to give me 100 words to explain my case in
Virginia. I have eight children. One of them is Shamema, whom many of
you met when I brought her to international chess tournaments. When
Shamema was eight years old, she was kidnapped by persons unrelated to
us and taken to Virginia. When I came to Virginia to try to rescue my
kidnapped daughter, I was arrested, tried and convicted of attempted
abduction of my daughter and failure to appear for trial."

*******

2. On June 28, 1993, Judge Marilyn Dolan Go wrote:

http://samsloan.com/judgego.htm

" [...]

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

The facts giving rise to plaintiff's [i.e., Sloan's] claims are set
forth in a 316-paragraph, 50 page, seven-count complaint. Construing
the allegations in the complaint liberally (particularly because
plaintiff is pro se), McNeil v. United States, 113 S. Ct. 1980, 1984
(1993), and accepting them as true, Kossick v. United Fruit Co., 365
U.S. 731 (1961), the pertinent facts may be distilled to the following
sequence of events:

Dispute over Custody of Shamema Honzagool Sloan

Plaintiff has made a career as a chess manager, author, journalist,
and securities dealer. pp. 43, 110. His daughter, Shamema Honzagool
Sloan, was born on October 15, 1981 in New York City to his wife,
Honzagool, a native of Pakistan. pp. 44. Honzagool was awarded custody
of Shamema in May 1982 by the Bronx Supreme Court; in August of that
year Honzagool returned to Pakistan, where she has apparently
remained, leaving Shamema in the United States. par. 49. Plaintiff
placed Shamema in the care of Shelby Roberts of Madison Heights,
Virginia from November 1982 to August 1986, paying her $110 per week.
pp. 50-51. Plaintiff alleges that he had to hide Shamema in Virginia
because he feared the Black Muslim Underground Militant Organization
from Pakistan would try to kidnap her. par. 50.

Plaintiff filed a petition for custody of Shamema before Lynchburg
Family Court in September 1983 and alleges that Judge Dale Harris
"refused to set that matter down for a hearing." par. 98. On January
13, 1986, plaintiff filed a petition for custody of Shamema in the
Amherst county Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. par. 100. On
April 2, 1986, after hearing, Judge Lawrence Janow entered an order
granting temporary legal custody to plaintiff and temporary physical
custody to the present custodians, Charles and Shelby Roberts, unnamed
in the order. The plaintiff was given visitation rights provided that
he not take Shamema out of state without a court order. The case was
continued until August 25.

[footnote 1] Although plaintiff does not specifically refer to this
hearing and resulting order in the complaint, he subsequently
submitted a copy of the order to this court.

On August 25, 1986, Judge Janow held a conference attended by the
Roberts, their attorney, Frank Davidson III, the plaintiff and his
attorney Stephen Martin, and J. Thompson Shrader, the court-appointed
guardian litem for Shamema. That day, Judge Janow issued a decision
awarding physical custody of Shamema to the plaintiff effective
September 7, 1986, and allowing the Roberts, "reasonable overnight
visitation" rights "as Counsel agrees". The order provided for
maintenance of the status quo and allowed Shamema to be enrolled at
the Temple Baptist school, where she had been enrolled before, rather
than public school. par. 106; see also order dated August 25, 1986, a
copy of which was submitted with plaintiff's letter of April 18, 1993.

Plaintiff states that he, a converted, practicing Muslim, did not want
his daughter to attend a Christian school. par. 108. Apparently for
that reason, plaintiff left Virginia with his mother and Shamema that
night and, a few weeks later, flew to Argentina where plaintiff
attended a chess tournament. pp. 51, 3.07-110. The plaintiff, his
mother, and his daughter eventually settled for the next four years in
the United Arab Emirates, where plaintiff worked as a columnist for a
local newspaper.

Charles Roberts, through his attorney, Frank Davidson III, filed a
custody Petition an August 27, 1986. par. 52. Since plaintiff had
already left the state, Roberts never personally served plaintiff with
the papers, and, instead, obtained leave to publish a notice of
service in the Amherst New Era Progress, a local county weekly. pp.
143, 227. On September 4, the court rescinded that portion of the
August 25 order that gave physical custody of Shamema to plaintiff
effective September 7 and left physical custody either with the
Roberts after that date, or with the Amherst County Department of
Social Services with leave to place the child "with any suitable
persons, including Charles and Shelby Roberts." Plaintiff's removal of
Shamema from the Commonwealth of Virginia in violation of the April 2
order resulted in his arrest twice on the basis of a federal
kidnapping warrant, once in Guam, and once in Hawaii, but the charge
was dropped after Lynchburg officials refused to pay the cost of
extradition from these locations. pp. 17, 20-21, 128-29, 130-31. Judge
Janow also issued a nationwide detention order for Shamema. par. 146.

[...]

Return to the United States

Plaintiff alleges that the Roberts also hired Boonchoo Yensabai to
track down and return Shamema to Virginia. par. 192. Plaintiff claims
that Mr. Yensabai threatened and coerced Vithanage Shanthilatha
("Shanti"), his wife and the mother of Jessica Sloan, to assist him in
returning Shamema from the United Arab Emirates to the United States.
par. 196. On October 7, 1990, Shanti took Shamema, Jessica, and
Michael to Abu Dhabi and picked up airline tickets to the United
States that had been sent by the Roberts. pp. 199, 202-204. On October
9, Shanti, Shamema, and Jessica arrived in Washington, D.C., where
they were met by the Roberts taken to Virginia. par. 205. Michael was
left behind with a stranger and eventually returned to plaintiff. pp.
202, 206.

Plaintiff and Michael returned to the United States on November 9,
1990. par. 216. on November 13, plaintiff went to the Amherst County
Department of Social Services to meet case worker Richard Groff, who
told him he could see Shamema. pp. 220, 224 . Upon his arrival he was
arrested and subsequently charged with contempt for disobeying Judge
Janow's August 25, 1986 court order and for failing to appear in court
on September 8, 1986. par. 22, 224-229. Mr. Groff also presented him
with an order dated October 24, 1990 enjoining plaintiff from having
any contact with Shamema. pp. 224, 226. That evening, plaintiff was
brought before Judge Janow, who stated that the Amherst County
Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court had continuing jurisdiction over
Shamema's custody proceeding and raised plaintiff's bail from $1,000
to $10,000. pp. 231-33. While he was in jail, plaintiff was served
with custody petitions for Jessica and Michael Sloan. pp. 236. Also,
while he was in jail, plaintiff claims that Officer McFarland allowed
Sharon Haberer, whom plaintiff describes as a "co-religionist of
Charles Roberts,- par. 237, to take his son, Michael, from the home of
plaintiff's friend. pp. 31-32, 225, 239. She then brought Michael to
New York City. par. 240. Later that month, plaintiff traveled to Far
Rockaway to talk to Sharon and David Haberer. pp. 243-44. He was
arrested on charges of "aggravated harassment" of Sharon Haberer and
her husband. par. 246. These charges were later dropped. par. 248.

In early 1991, plaintiff got in touch with his wife Rankoth Pedigedera
Dayawathie, the mother of Michael and George, who was staying with the
Haberers and the two boys. Plaintiff picked the three of them up in
New York City and drove them back to his mother's house in Lynchburg.
par. 249. Soon thereafter, he also got in touch .with Shanti, who had
been staying with the Roberts along with her daughter, Jessica, and
Shamema. par. 251-53. Shanti and Jessica stayed in the Lynchburg house
for a few days, then left and later moved to Oakland, California. pp.
23, 254.

In July of 1991, the Amherst County Juvenile and Domestic Relations
Court awarded sole custody of Shamema to the Roberts and directed that
plaintiff could visit her only under the supervision of the Amherst
County Department of Social Services. pp. 257, 265-66. On September 4,
1991, during a supervised visit, plaintiff was arrested on charges of
the attempted kidnapping of Shamema. pp. 24, 267. This act as the
basis for his recent conviction for attempted abduction. Steve
Vaughan, World Traveler Found Guilty in Daughter's Kidnap Attempt,
Lynchburg News & Advance, Jan. 14, 1993, at C-1, C-7."

*******

3. On October 19, 1993, the Virginia Court of Appeals issued the
following order:

http://www.samsloan.com//weight.htm

VIRGINIA:

In The Court of Appeals of Virginia on Tuesday the 19th day of
October, 1993.

M. Ismail Sloan, a/k/a
Samuel Howard Sloan,

Appellant,

against

Record No. 0934-93-3
Circuit Court Nos. CR91003195-00 and
CR92003936-01

Commonwealth of Virginia,

Appellee.

From the Circuit Court of the City of Lynchburg

Before Judges Benton, Coleman and Willis

Appellant's motion to not consider appellee's brief in opposition is
granted. The brief in opposition was not timely filed, and no motion
for extension of time was filed. Rule 5A:13.

This petition for appeal is granted in part and denied in part. And an
appeal is awarded to the petitioner from a judgment of the Circuit
Court of the City of Lynchburg, dated January 13, 1993, with respect
to the following question:

Whether the language of the indictment alleging a felony violation of
bond specifically by reason of appellant's failure to appear on
January 10, 1992 presents a fatal variance from the evidence
presented.

No bond is required. The clerk is directed to certify this action to
the trial court and to all counsel of record.

Pursuant to Rule 5A:25, ...

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