Drug dealers could be charged with murder under new Virginia fentanyl plan (1 Viewer)

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    Virginia Republicans announced their top legislative priorities for the new year, with curbing fentanyl deaths chief among them.

    Under current case law, it is difficult to charge a drug dealer with the murder of a user who died from fentanyl they had purchased unless they are in the proximity of that dealer, according to GOP legislators.

    State Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle, R-New Kent, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that Virginia hopes to address that legislative insufficiency.

    "This [law] would say if you sell the drugs, it doesn't...

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