Former NASCAR driver Eric McClure died Sunday at the age of 42.

Jeff Campbell, repeatedly invoked a privilege of his office that grants legislator-lawyers broad discretion to obtain continuances in their cases. He previously declined to discuss his relatively frequent use of continuances at length but said they were used appropriately in the McClure case. He appealed, and the case was routinely delayed, at least nine times due to Campbell’s use of continuances, according to court records. Miranda McClure said Eric McClure choked and hit her in front of their children, and her 9-year-old daughter called 911. Campbell was able to obtain continuances multiple times in the McClure case over the objection of the commonwealth’s attorney’s office.

In the McClure case, Campbell said, each continuance was requested for good reason. Assistant Smyth County commonwealth’s attorney Brendan Roche said his office didn't object to the first few continuances in the McClure case. Virginia court records cannot be comprehensively searched for every instance in which a legislator-lawyer uses the privilege. Those records cover only circuit court cases and don't include two large northern Virginia jurisdictions that use their own case-management systems. Kilgore is representing Miranda McClure in her divorce proceedings and has not invoked the privilege in that case, according to the court clerk.