Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

Imminent danger [ID] must be present for a person to successfully advance a defense of self defense against an assault prosecutions. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I hear many of my clients and potential clients assert self defense, defense of others and pre-emptive attacks. Even...

Virginia criminalizes drunk driving. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I repeatedly see police and prosecutors of the commonwealth bend over backwards to prove that the defendant was driving and that the drinking behavior preceded driving and attempting to drive. What does this mean for you...

Probation officers in Virginia wield tremendous power. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I experience their power in writing presentence reports for Virginia Circuit Court judges, supervising their probationers, notifying judges of alleged violations of probation, and testifying in court about their probationers. Regardless of how...

Overcovering risk (OR) is an essential part of criminal defense. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I do that by being fully prepared for trial and all other court dates, by fully preparing my clients for court and all other stages of their defense, and by...

By sheer happenstance, the night before Alec Baldwin's legal team convinced the trial judge on July 12, 2024, to dismiss Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter prosecution with prejudice -- meaning for the prosecution never to return to court -- my son and I started watching Just Mercy, about criminal...

Cross exam (CE) does not start at the seat of an attorney's pants, but through careful thought, insight and preparation. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know full well that CE is an art, science and necessity. CE in and of itself will bring no...

Machine guns (MGs) are not created from bump stocks. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer and civil libertarian, I believe in a gun laws, firearms laws, and a Second Amendment with teeth limiting prosecutions and convictions. As with recent Second Amendment protections from the Supreme Court,...

Twice the 0.08 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) testing already risks a mandatory minimum five days in jail in Virginia if convicted of such a BAC. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I recently achieved a wet reckless driving disposition in Fairfax County General District Court that...

Fairfax plea deals -- and settlement negotiations in all Virginia jurisdictions -- are not worth the paper they are written on if the judge is going to reject the party-agreed sentence or sentencing cap. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that if a Virginia...

Favorable judges are not guaranteed for your court case. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that judges run from the sufficiently patient to those with short fuses, from those who have high equanimity to those who are cranky and even angry, from those who...