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Commanders’ Jamin Davis due back in court after judge rejects reckless driving plea deal

Washington Commanders linebacker Jamin Davis was on the practice field in Ashburn Tuesday morning — but on Thursday he’ll be back in a Leesburg, Virginia, courtroom, after a judge rejected a plea agreement for reckless driving.

On Monday, Circuit Court Judge Stephen Sincavage wasn’t satisfied with the deal Davis and his attorneys had reached with Loudoun County prosecutors that came as Davis appeals a September 2022 conviction in District Court.

In the lower court, a judge found Davis guilty of driving 114 mph in a 45 mph zone on Loudoun County Parkway, near Evergreen Ridge Drive, on March 28, 2022, at approximately 1 in the afternoon.

The district court found Davis guilty, and sentenced him to 30 days in jail. In addition, he was fined and had his license suspended. District court convictions are appealed to the county’s circuit court.

On Monday, prosecutors and Davis’s attorney reached an agreement that he would plead guilty, but serve a maximum of eight days in jail.

Sincavage rejected the proposed agreement, pointing to Davis’s previous driving record. In 2021 Davis was charged with reckless driving— going 89 mph in a 65 mph zone — but the charge was reduced to a speeding infraction, with a $150 fine.

National Museum of the American Latino to be housed in historic Smithsonian building

The Smithsonian Institution has decided to put the National Museum of the American Latino into an existing, historic building, rather than constructing a new one. The Smithsonian Board of Regents on Monday designated the Arts and Industries Building, a 145-year-old redbrick Victorian structure located between the Smithsonian Castle and the Hirshhorn Museum, as the permanent site of the National Museum of the American Latino, which Congress authorized in 2020. In 2022, the Smithsonian narrowed its survey for permanent locations for the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women's History Museum to four locations near the National Mall on land owned by the National Park Service. The Arts and Industries Building, located at 900 Jefferson St. SW, was one of the four sites. New construction on National Park Service land would require congressional approval. However, since the Smithsonian already owns the Arts and Industries Building, the institution can place the National Museum of the American Latino in the existing building without additional legislation.
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