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Entrenched ways of prosecuting in Northern Virginia have been engrained in the Fairfax County commonwealth's attorney's office, starting with chief prosecutor Robert Horan from the 1960's and continuing with his successor and former deputy Ray Morrogh; in Arlington, going back to chief prosecutor Helen Fahey...

Interview of Jon Katz about the murder rate in the United States.

During my year between college graduation and the beginning of law school, I worked at Wall Street’s Irving Trust Company as a financial auditor, as part of my plan at once to do well financially while doing no harm to society and continuing my human rights...

My interview starts at minute 4:00. On June 4, Voice of America television included me on a half-hour live French-speaking panel interview about the FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) scandal (see the lengthy official criminal charges). The program was broadcast to countries including French-speaking...

Maryland’s highest court today ruled on jury unanimity, and on French kissing by a custodian as a form of criminal sexual abuse. Crispino v. Maryland, ___ Md. ___ (Nov. 9, 2010). Crispino underlined that “[w]e have recognized, in Rice v. State, 311 Md. 116, 532...

A friend told me he once saw Sting on a London street in the mid-1980’s. Word traveled rapidly that he was there, and Sting slipped deftly away before he got mobbed. I, on the other hand, saw Roger Daltrey in a Vancouver hotel lobby in 2001,...

Virginia has long been in the dark ages in many aspects of criminal law, including backwards prosecutor-friendly crabbed discovery rules, forced jury sentencing, and judicial control over party-agreed case dismissals concerning Virginia defendants. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that Circuit Court discovery is...

Virginia sentencing should not be by underinformed jurors, let alone by jurors at all, says Fairfax criminal lawyer Virginia sentencing starts with a jury recommendation if the jury convicted. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that Virginia is one of only two states in...

Improper driving ("ID"), which is an infraction, is often a negotiated result sought in a Virginia reckless driving case, but much less often attainable for a DUI case. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I recently obtained the big leap of an ID plea deal in...