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Virginia AG Miyares: Loudoun Co. school board suit to halt special grand jury ‘legally baseless’

Neal Augenstein | naugenstein@wtop.com

June 15, 2022, 10:23 AM

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares says the Loudoun County School Board’s lawsuit attempting to shut down a special grand jury investigation is “legally baseless.”

As WTOP first reported last month, the school board is seeking a temporary injunction to prohibit any further actions by the special grand jury, convened by Miyares, to look into how the school system handled two sexual assaults by the same high school student last year.

In a motion filed Wednesday, Miyares said the school board’s suit should be dismissed: “The Complaint seeks to shut down or control a lawfully instituted criminal investigation and any subsequent prosecutions.”

Miyares convened the special grand jury under one of the first executive orders issued by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Executive Order 4 authorizes Miyares to conduct “a full investigation into Loudoun County Public Schools.”

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Neal Augenstein
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