Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

I was about to say how much former officer Melendez's brutality against Floyd Dent -- compounded by the other numerous assembled cops acting as a united front with Melendez rather than stepping up against his brutality -- shows how so much in this world is...

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court gave retrospective effect to Miller v. Alabama, 567 U. S. ___ (2012), which prohibits mandatory, versus discretionary, life without parole sentences for those who committed crimes while under eighteen years old.

As glorious as are criminal trial victories, settlement negotiations are very important for many criminal defendants, because many of them are caught redhanded and have thin reeds at best for avoiding worse and significantly more punishing outcomes at trial than trough settling their case.

In 2000, federal highway legislation shoved mandatory criminalization of a 0.08 blood alcohol level in DWI cases down the states’ throats under the penalty of otherwise losing federal highway funding. A 0.08 blood alcohol level is so easy to reach that anybody who drives after...

My community service recommendations come in the context of my advising my criminal defense clients to complete some tasks or "homework" to assist in negotiating their cases and to assist with any possible sentencing.

Those seeking convictions will love nothing better than a complacent criminal defense lawyer and criminal defendant. Complacency has no proper role in criminal defense. The battle lines are drawn at the moment the criminal defendant is charged with a crime, and from there the battle...

For this new year and every subsequent new year, the resolution must be "no" when a police suspect.

The criminal defense lawyer must be ready to hold a proverbial mirror to the contemptuous prosecutor and a flashlight to his or her eyes and face to put the prosecutor's true self on ugly and point-losing display

My client can get swept up with me in that fireball of positive energy that focuses on directing a fan at any dirt thrown our way rather than descending into curses and complaints.

Criminal defendants live with the damage from convictions their entire lives. They should be entitled to a few extra moments to better assure that they are entering guilty and no contest pleas knowingly and voluntarily.