Office Accomplishments

Notable Convictions

Commonwealth of Virginia v. Aaron Randolph Carter and Lorenzo Adonis Brooks. Ms. Humphries led the prosecution team that obtained second degree murder convictions against two individuals who killed a local eighteen year old student in 2024. Ms. Humphries served as the first-chair prosecutor at the jury trial.

‍Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jordan Eugene Cochran. Ms. Humphries’ office obtained two life sentences against an individual who murdered a young adult in a dispute over sneakers and then shot and blinded another individual as he fled. The case was tried to a jury. {The shootings occurred in Fairfax County. Ms. Humphries served as the substitute chief prosecutor for the case by order of the Circuit Court of Fairfax County. Her office’s chief deputy prosecutor led the prosecution team.}

‍Commonwealth of Virginia v. Kim Deshawn Prophet, II. Ms. Humphries’ office obtained guilty verdicts from a jury against an out of state man who drove to Fredericksburg with other offenders to commit an armed robbery.  During the commission of the offense two people were shot and injured. 

‍Commonwealth of Virginia v. Christopher Michael Woolcott. In a jury trial, Ms. Humphries’ office obtained convictions carrying six mandatory life incarceration terms in a multi-victim child sexual assault case. 

‍Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jeffery Columbus Brown. Ms. Humphries led the prosecution team that obtained convictions from a jury for a home-invasion shooting, including two counts of malicious wounding, two counts of use of a firearm to commit malicious wounding, and maliciously shooting within an occupied dwelling. Ms. Humphries served as the first-chair prosecutor in the courtroom.

‍Commonwealth of Virginia v. Cleveland Harris Parker. Ms. Humphries’ office obtained a ten-year active sentence against repeat drug dealer  trafficking in Fentanyl, Cocaine, Oxycodone, and other drugs.

‍Commonwealth of Virginia v. Terrell Malik Upson. Ms. Humphries’ office obtained an abusive image conviction (child pornography conviction) against a man based on the screenshot of the image provided by the reporting party and other circumstantial evidence instead of the original image. The case was tried to a jury. 

‍Commonwealth v. Anthony Patrick Washington. In 2021, Ms. Humphries obtained aggravated malicious wounding and use of firearm convictions at trial against a man who shot a woman in the ankle in a racially charged incident, thereby causing
permanent, severe disability to her.  The man is serving a ten-year active sentence. Prosecution first began while Ms. Humphries was a deputy in the office. Sentencing occurred on August 27, 2021 (after she became Commonwealth’s Attorney on August 1, 2021). These convictions were upheld on appeal in 2023.

In the Community

Established the Fredericksburg Therapeutic Docket is the first district court specialty docket in the City of Fredericksburg and in the region. Ms. Humphries co-led the community stakeholder team that established the docket after successfully completing a rigorous planning and training process.

‍Fully Staffed Office, Ms. Humphries has maintained a fully staffed despite severe shortages of prosecutors and other public service staff across the country and in Virginia. This office has eight prosecutors, seven administrative staff, and three victim advocates.

‍Prosecutor Office Culture. Ms. Humphries increased office cultures on teamwork and transparency, including building collaborative approaches to prosecution and cross-training staff. 

‍Vibrant Fredericksburg organized retail crime workgroup. Ms. Humphries leads a new multi-disciplinary local retail theft task force group, for greater collaboration and best practices for prosecuting organized retail theft. Ms. Humphries’ office, the Fredericksburg Police Department, and local and regional retail theft asset protection managers from six national chains with stores in the City’s Central Park shopping district participate. 

‍Additional Accomplishments
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Ms. Humphries teaches the civil liability unit for police officers and other first responders completing the forty-hour Crisis Intervention Training for police interactions and interventions with individuals with serious mental illness. (The course is offered through the Rappahannock Area Community Services Board and taught at the Rappahannock Regional Criminal Justice Academy.)
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Since 2021, Ms. Humphries has served as the co-chair of the liaison work group between the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) and the Virginia Association of Commonwealth’s Attorneys (VACA). (The DJJ director is the other co-chair.) She also served on this work group while she was a line prosecutor from 2016 to 2021.

Ms. Humphries serves as VACA’s point of contact and representative to the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys.

With her encouragement and support of the value of service, prosecutors in Ms. Humphries’ office have given their time to:

• Serve as faculty on continuing legal education programs put on by the Commonwealth’s Attorney Services Council and other notable trainings and workgroups.
• Serve as officers of the Fredericksburg Area Bar Association and as members of the Virginia Association of Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ Special Committee on Deputies and Assistants and a district lawyer disciplinary committee of the Virginia State Bar.
• Participate in the nine-month Leadership Fredericksburg course and the Virginia State Police annual moot court training for new troopers.