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Pierpont Community & Technical College - Political Science

Law Offices of Robert Bolton
Law Practice
Robert
Bolton
Grafton, West Virginia
I am an attorney who owns and operates the Law Offices of Robert Bolton. My private practice encompasses real property transactions, estate planning, powers of attorney, business sale agreements, criminal expungements, and contracts. I frequently speak to high schools groups, local civic organizations, and public holiday events.

Experience

  • Law Offices of Robert Bolton

    Lawyer

    Robert worked at Law Offices of Robert Bolton as a Lawyer

  • Fairmont State University

    Adjunct Professor

    I taught courses on American Government and Political Science at the Caperton Center for Fairmont State University and Pierpont Community & Technical College. An important aspect of my teaching style was emphasis on the historical trends and social milieu that leads to decisions by elected officials and the administrative state.

  • Taylor County Prosecutor's Office

    Assistant Prosecuting Attorney

    My responsibilities entailed in part preparing cases for trial, sending out of notices of hearing, researching case law, serving as a liaison to the Taylor County Commission on legal matters, acting as special commissioner on land sales, and making in-court appearances.

  • McNeer, Highland, McMunn and Varner L.C.

    Intern

    During my time at McNeer Highland, among the items I was tasked with were drafting deeds, wills, reviewing miscellaneous documents, and researching case law. I gained a particularly extensive knowledge of tripartite relationships and bad faith litigation in insurance disputes. I also wrote a paper presented to the Annual Convention of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees titled “Keeping the Trustee from Getting Hurt: Issues in Tort Cases.”

  • West Virginia Judiciary

    Magistrate

    I began service as Magistrate in Taylor County, West Virginia, in April of 2015, along with fellow Magistrate Rick Reese. In my role as a judicial officer, I oversaw the application and enforcement of state laws, regulations, and court procedure. Among my responsibilities were setting bond on initial appearances, hearing preliminary matters in felony criminal cases, trying misdemeanor criminal cases, handling certain juvenile matters, issuing emergency domestic violence protective orders, conducting mental hygiene hearings, and judging civil claims under $10,000.

Education

  • Fairmont State College

    Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

    Political Science & History
    During my time at Fairmont State University, I maintained an active course load and interspersed it with numerous extracurricular activities. In part, I founded a school newsletter devoted to international affairs, worked as a tutor at the university's study aid center, and involved myself with Fairmont State's Honors Society. In my final two years, I was never registered for less than twenty hours and graduated on the four-year schedule with a cumulative GPA of 3.91, finishing with highest honors and summa cum laude. Additionally, I was on the Dean's List every semester of my attendance.

  • Wake Forest University School of Law

    Doctor of Law (J.D.)

    Law

  • Fairmont State University

    Adjunct Professor


    I taught courses on American Government and Political Science at the Caperton Center for Fairmont State University and Pierpont Community & Technical College. An important aspect of my teaching style was emphasis on the historical trends and social milieu that leads to decisions by elected officials and the administrative state.

Publications

  • Strangulation as a Felony Offense: A New Penalty Under W. Va. Code § 61-2-9D

    West Virginia Law Review Online

    In March of 2016, the West Virginia Legislature passed a law adding a new section to W. Va. Code § 61-2-1 et al. to specifically criminalize strangulation as a felony offense. Such offenses would have previously been charged under the West Virginia Code's provisions for domestic battery, malicious wounding, or attempted murder. The law's passage was the culmination of efforts by the legislature during the prior year. The primary motivation to punish this behavior originated in medical studies which revealed a substantially higher likelihood of homicide occurring in domestic relationships when strangulation previously occurred. Upon taking effect in June of 2016, West Virginia joined the majority of states which punish strangulation as a separate offense. Although the language used in the West Virginia Code was similar to many other jurisdictions, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has yet to interpret the provision's language requiring loss of consciousness or bodily injury as the threshold for conviction. As a result, how the law is applied varies widely among prosecutors, lower courts, and law enforcement. In addition, the rate of charges being filed under the new statute varied considerably, with some counties filing none and others doing so on dozens of occasions. The purpose of this article is to compare the approaches of other jurisdictions on what constitutes "bodily injury" and also proposals for future interpretations and revisions to the law. The proper Bluebook citation for my article is Robert Lee Bolton III, Strangulation as a Felony Offense: A New Penalty Under W. Va. Code § 61-2-9D, 120 W. Va. L. Rev. Online 18 (2017).

  • Strangulation as a Felony Offense: A New Penalty Under W. Va. Code § 61-2-9D

    West Virginia Law Review Online

    In March of 2016, the West Virginia Legislature passed a law adding a new section to W. Va. Code § 61-2-1 et al. to specifically criminalize strangulation as a felony offense. Such offenses would have previously been charged under the West Virginia Code's provisions for domestic battery, malicious wounding, or attempted murder. The law's passage was the culmination of efforts by the legislature during the prior year. The primary motivation to punish this behavior originated in medical studies which revealed a substantially higher likelihood of homicide occurring in domestic relationships when strangulation previously occurred. Upon taking effect in June of 2016, West Virginia joined the majority of states which punish strangulation as a separate offense. Although the language used in the West Virginia Code was similar to many other jurisdictions, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has yet to interpret the provision's language requiring loss of consciousness or bodily injury as the threshold for conviction. As a result, how the law is applied varies widely among prosecutors, lower courts, and law enforcement. In addition, the rate of charges being filed under the new statute varied considerably, with some counties filing none and others doing so on dozens of occasions. The purpose of this article is to compare the approaches of other jurisdictions on what constitutes "bodily injury" and also proposals for future interpretations and revisions to the law. The proper Bluebook citation for my article is Robert Lee Bolton III, Strangulation as a Felony Offense: A New Penalty Under W. Va. Code § 61-2-9D, 120 W. Va. L. Rev. Online 18 (2017).

  • The Right to Be Forgotten: Forced Amnesia in a Technological Age

    John Marshall Journal of Information, Technology, & Privacy Law

    In the modern era, the connection between technology and one’s personal life has increased the number of moments recorded for posterity. While in many circumstances this is an ideal opportunity for fond recollection, it has the downside of displaying for others our less flattering moments. Because the Internet has such a wide scope, once something has entered its domain, it is virtually impossible to permanently remove. With a public increasingly perceiving this winnowing of privacy as a negative tendency, legislators both at home and abroad have made proposals that attempt to place restrictions on what content social media is allowed to permanently retain. In the United States, while there may be a significant economic interest in websites assuring their users that their data will be deleted upon request, currently there is largely no federal mandate to do so. As a result, most efforts have been initiated at the state level. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of foreign approaches to data retention by private parties, compare these to American efforts to regulate a subsection within the broader concept, and ultimately outline the positive and negative prospects such a reform movement would entail. The article is currently available at the John Marshall Journal of Information, Technology, and Privacy Law's website. A slightly earlier version can be found at SSRN under the same name.

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