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Stopping violence without worsening the poor criminal justice system – Virginia lawyer
Virginia criminal lawyer warns against worsening the criminal justice system in addressing rampant gun violence. Stopping violence must not come at the price of worsening our already unacceptable criminal justice system that overcriminalizes, overarrests, overconvicts, overincarcerates, and oversupervises (through pretrial detention, and often excessive limitations...
Drug field tests- Don’t allow criminal justice on the cheap
When police find suspected illegal drugs on or near a suspect, they field test the substance as part of the determination of whether to arrest the suspect(s), to search further, or to seek a search warrant.
Prosecuting wrongful killings by cops will not reduce police misconduct as much as overhauling the entire criminal justice system
The videotaped and other reported incidents of wrongful killings and other misconduct by police keep pouring in. With this month’s police killings of Walter Scott (shot in the back) and Eric Harris (shot by a part-time cop claiming he meant only to tase Harris), we...
Needing a more human and compassionate criminal justice system
At least for those with jailable criminal cases against them, a large percentage of them enter the courthouse in fear. Those running and operating the courts try to maintain a sense of normalcy — at least superficially — amidst all this fear, but it remains. Some...
The criminal justice system should be about equal justice for all, and not a perpetuation of an underclass
When I became a public defender lawyer after two years working with a corporate law firm, I went from a high-rent office two blocks from the White House with a fancy desk to a non-descript office that was literally across the freight railroad tracks.I had...
Judges: The Exclusionary Rule must even cover the countless police errors resulting from an overgrown criminal justice system
To my knowledge, when they were lawyers, no current Supreme Court justice prosecuted nor defended criminal cases in trial court, and none of them were police. Probably with few or no exceptions, the sitting justices’ law clerks are chosen not for previous law clerking experience...
Money for Justice – Fairfax Criminal Lawyer on Fines & Restitution
Money often plays a substantial role in negotiating Virginia criminal cases, and with fines, fees and restitution. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that my clients with sufficient assets often prefer spending funds to avoid a conviction, to negotiate reducing their criminal charge to...
Virginia obstruction of justice cases- Fairfax criminal lawyer’s view
Virginia obstruction of justice convictions cannot be obtained for mere flight from police. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that the foregoing scenario changes if the criminal defendant pushes on a police officer to get away from him or her. Lucas v. Commonwealth of Virginia,...
Fighting like hell is essential to pursuing Virginia criminal defense justice
Fighting like hell is the essential approach for Virginia criminal and DUI defendants. As a Fairfax criminal and DWI lawyer, I know that if you are a criminal defendant, your back is to the wall unless you battle your way out along with a qualified...
Masked justice must not compromise justice says Fairfax criminal lawyer
Masked people abound as Covid-19 continues without a care, moving from host to host, slowing here and surging there. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that coronavirus must not be permitted to water down justice. For Due Process and the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause...