Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

Pouncing when the deal is right is an important part of fighting Virginia prosecutions. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer I fully prepare my clients' cases to proceed to trial, thereby pursuing my clients' best defense, keeping in the defendant's hands the full control over approving...

Disarming allegedly dangerous people is the keyphrase for commonwealth legislators and Virginia prosecutors to use in claiming that a law or prosecution prohibiting or penalizing firearm possession or use passes Constitutional muster with the Second Amendment. That is the takeaway from the Virginia Court of...

Fairfax LEO mall shooting was the headline last year when a police officer (Wesley Shifflett) from this county shot dead a suspect (Timonthy Johnson) fleeing the law enforcement officer(s) outside Tysons mall. As a Virginia criminal lawyer, I was disturbed, to say the least, at...

Fully engaging the person an attorney wants to persuade is essential. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer that truism was again proven when I negotiated a wet reckless disposition (without active jail time, a modest fine, and liberal restricted driving privileges) from a Virginia DUI prosecution...

Fairfax bench members -- meaning judges on that county's District and Circuit Courts -- mean business. This is true for all judges before whom I have appeared thousands of times during my criminal defense career. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know this to be...

Inconsistent Virginia prosecution witness testimony is not a winnable appelate issues, says Fairfax criminal lawyer Inconsistent testimony (IT) from Virginia prosecution witnesses can be unsettling and even maddening to people with a conscience. Nonetheless, as a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that unless the IT...

Virginia DUI device conversion is on the horizon. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know this change is coming after the Intox EC/IR II breathzlyzer device was used for years, which replaced the Intoxilyzer 5000 that was used for many years. With each breathalyzer machine...

Contest your Virginia pretrial release orders when winnable, whether those orders be to keep you inside the commonwealth, to require you to participate in pretrial release programs, or any other pretrial conditions you wish to appeal. Watch out, though, about whether such challenges will lead...

Fairfax holiday arrests and all arrests call for full defense. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that police seek out crimes and alleged crimes relating to holiday merrymaking, like bear waiting for salmon spawning upstream. Between now and the new year festivities, you can...

Fairfax crimmigration risks may increase with the state governor's recent threat of withholding funding from jurisdictions that do not assist federal immigration authorities. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I recognize that the governor's proposed budget may or may not get legislative passage for funding to...