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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Walker reverses the lower court's order dismissing defendant's appeal of his 2019 no-contest plea to obstructing an officer from Monongalia Magistrate Court stemming from his arrest on July 31, 2019, for disrupting a West Virginia University Board of Governor's meeting. Absent certain exceptions as specified in state code, appeals from magistrate court are de novo, so the judge erred by failing to entertain the appeal and rule on the merits of the case. Reversed.
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