A former University of Virginia lacrosse player who fatally beat his girlfriend in 2010 has been ordered by a jury to pay $15 million in a wrongful death lawsuit.

In her 9th-grade essay, Yeardley Love wrote about what she wanted to do with her life: to attend the University of Virginia, to play lacrosse there, to become a lawyer and to maintain her close relationship with her family.

A jury has been selected in the civil trial of a man who was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2010 death of University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love.

A federal judge has granted a limited appeal filed by a former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted a decade ago of murdering his ex-girlfriend. George Huguely V is serving a 25-year sentence for the 2010 slaying of Yeardley Love, who was herself a lacrosse player at U.Va. Calls Tuesday to Huguely’s appellate attorney and the office of Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, who is fighting the appeal, were not immediately returned. The jury convicted Huguely, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, of second-degree murder at a trial in 2012 after about nine hours of deliberations. It rejected a first-degree murder conviction that could have resulted in a life sentence.