Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

Criminal complainants can be valuable sources of information to a criminal defense lawyer both for preparing the defense and for seeking to settle the case. Watch out, though, for the risks that criminal complainants will clam up, whether out of fear or uncertainty, out of...

UPDATE (Late July 10, 2014): Manassas City, Virginia, police, have done the right thing by deciding to let expire the magstrate-issued search warrant ordering the inducing and photographing of a 17-year-old man’s erection. ORIGINAL BLOG ENTRY (JULY 10, 2014): Yesterday morning, July 9, a colleague asked...

A key part of persuasion is getting the audience to listen to the speaker in the first place. If the audience feels uncomfortable, threatened or even frightened by the speaker, the audience will be distracted in trying to tune out from the speaker, defend themselves...

An interesting mating dance is often done between criminal defendants and the lawyers they are considering hiring. They want to know a lawyer’s fee, the lawyer’s quality, and the lawyer’s devotion to them and their case if hired. Some feel pressure (for instance to visit...

Judy Clarke stands behind the late Wyoming Chief Justice Bob Rose (wearing an eyepatch). I am standing here, in pre-gray wavy hair, two men to the left of Bob Rose. (1995, Thunderhead Ranch, Dubois, Wyoming.) When I transitioned from a Washington, D.C., 25-lawyer corporate law...

How many doctors and lawyers do you know who keep their patients and clients at arm’s length? I see it all the time. Does it come from habit, training, observation of colleagues, assumptions, wrong analysis, or a combination of some or all of them. For me...

Support our troops is a common refrain —- urging such support regardless of one’s views of the military’s policies and actions — particularly when soldiers are at war. However, eighteen to twenty year olds are treated as responsble enough to carry and shoot weapons in...

A few times in my high school trigonometry class, I would sit down with my teacher during her office hours to assure that I was understanding one or the other challenging concept. Our meetings were short, because she would distill our discussions to such simplicity...

When a person lights a fire in a dry-wood forest, s/he will not be able to stop the firestorm that follows, burning down multiple trees, spreading far and wide, polluting the air and waterways, and killing and maiming animals and destroying their habitats. Government is...

How much compassion should I show for someone directing a meat cleaver at the throat of me or my client? Even with my over two decades of experience defending over three thousand criminal defendants, I still witness new ways that some opposing prosecutors and witnesses...