Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

Quickly moving dates for your appearances in Virginia General District Court and Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court mean that it is important for you to have a decisionmaking flowchart before your trial date about what will convince you to settle your case rather than...

Plea dealing (PD) by your Virginia criminal defense attorney needs to reveal no sweat nor blood by you nor your lawyer. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that many defendants endure sleep deprivation with worry about their cases, (for which I have suggested remedies...

Plea deals are overrated. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I suggest that you talk to any excellent criminal defense lawyer, and learn about the many times they have won trials that they were not sure they would win. Talk to them about the importance of...

Complacency has no place in your fight against your Virginia felony, misdemeanor or DUI prosecution. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I repeatedly hear my clients tell me about efforts by police / law enforcement officers (LEO's) to lull them into a false sense of security...

Your Virginia prosecutor has a top boss who is either an elected official / commonwealth's attorney, or a lawyer hired by a municipality to prosecute General District Court misdemeanors. Both are political situations and do not favor wishful thinking by you. An chief prosecutor might...

Presumption absence (PA) with BAC testing -- and these presumptions are rebuttable -- can be an important achievement at a Virginia DWI trial proceeding pursuant to Virginia Code § 18.2-266, but does not guarantee an acquittal. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I know that the BAC...

Witness absence (WA) should not be in your arsenal of wishful thinking as the accused. Nonetheless, as a Fairfax criminal defense lawyer, I have recently experienced numerous recent prosecution WA's, and share with you how to pursue the maximum possible benefit for your liberty when...

Frisking without reasonable articulable suspicion is only allowed in very narrow circumstances. As a Fairfax criminal defense lawyer, I know it is essential to challenge such searches tooth and nail. Unfortunately (but at least in an unpublished opinion, that therefore is not binding), a 2-1...

Overdosing (ODing) is an irreplaceable element of avoiding a Virginia drug possession conviction under the Commonwealth's good samaritan law. As a Fairfax criminal defense lawyer, I know that the Virginia Court of Appeals refuses to water down the statutory OD definition means "a life-threatening condition...

Switched actions may lead a trial judge to conclude that a police frisk / patdown was lawful under the federal Constitution's Fourth Amendment based on reasonable articulable suspicion versus unlawful as a mere hunch. As a Fairfax criminal defense lawyer, I know this to be...