Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

The District of Columbia and Maryland have decriminalized marijuana. The two jurisdictions have also moved forward in their own peculiar ways in giving limited protection to medical marijuana use. Neighboring Virginia lags far behind. For marijuana consumers working in and near Washington, D.C., Virginia’s disadvantageous...

In Virginia, flight is an essential element for the crime of resisting arrest under Va. Code § 18.2-479.1, which says: "A. Any person who intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a law-enforcement officer from lawfully arresting him, with or without a warrant, is guilty of...

Fairfax convictions with former rogue cop Jonathan Freitag may get reversed, with chief prosecutor Fairfax convictions with former rogue police officer Jonathan Freitag are in line for the chief prosecutor to seek to undo them. As a Virginia criminal lawyer, I am thankful that former...

Plenty of people sell imitation items that they claim to be such real illegal drugs as cocaine. The top motivations for doing so likely are seeking a higher profit margin, not having the real product available to sell, not knowing that the product is fake...

Virginia’s Supreme Court and Court of Appeals only occasionally issue published opinions. Yesterday, the Virginia Court of Appeals reiterated the narrowness on criminal defendants’ getting access to bills of particulars, addressed the rule of lenity, and underlined that sexual assailants risk a separate conviction and separate sentence...

Defending results for his Kindness in judges and all others is powerful, not weak. Those who do the opposite are either fearful of their weaknesses or else ill-taught. Praised be the judge who not long ago pondered why many in the audience stood upon his...

The recently-passed federal spending bill bars the United States Justice Department from trying to prevent states from implementing medical marijuana laws. However, this does not automatically mean that the Justice Department will not continue to raid and prosecute non-governmental entities that grow and sell marijuana ostensibly for...

December 15, 2014, was not a proud day for the United States Supreme Court, when it decided 8-1 that a traffic stop is not invalidated when based on a police officer’s reasonably mistaken reading of the law. Nicholas Heien was driving with a broken brake light. That was...

Law enforcement and tough-on-crime politicians rely too heavily on testing for alcohol to determine whether one has violated the drinking and driving laws, rather than to return to the sensible days when breath and blood testing (with breath testing already being highly flawed) was but...