Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

If a court case were cut and dried, then fewer unexpected turns of events would occur, and the cost of the defense could be better contained. However, if a criminal defendant wishes to maximize his or her chances of obtaining as much success as possible,...

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.

The judge granted my objection to the breath testing results coming into evidence, due to the prosecutor's inability to satisfy the above-referenced 20-minute rule. The judge subsequently found my client innocent/not guilty.

I would have hoped that the only similarity between the Khmer Rouge and Baton Rouge/Red Stick, would be the word "rouge"/red rather than deadly abuse of power. We don't need nor merit police using excessive force with red sticks, blue sticks, guns, fists, tasers, nor...

It can be scary for a criminal defense lawyer to place the fate of his or her client in the hands of the judge and jury. However, the effective criminal defense lawyer does not simply hand the defendant to the jury.

Go and enjoy the rest of the Fourth of July weekend, and remember that Independence Day has less meaning when criminal suspects do not assert their rights to remain silent with the police and to refuse police searches.

When I am defending clients charged with DWI -- which I do all the time -- I am defending the very essence of our civil liberties.

Policing is a necessary evil that is antithetical to a free, open and democratic society. Policing is a poison on society and the body politic when our society is overpoliced, which it has been for decades,

If a person wants to see people stripped of their happy-face/can-do armor and stiff upper lip, practice criminal defense. If my criminal defense client was not already in a personal mess of sorts that led to his or her arrest (remembering that innocent people get...

If my blog reacted to every extreme act of violence and every controversy over court cases, my blog would cover nothing else. The Western press repeatedly focuses on violence against Westerners -- and in particular massacres -- more than against those in the rest of...