Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

Depending on the judge I get for my case, my response runs from hoping I have misread the judicial assignment to figuring the judge is better than some and worse than others to raising my hands in joy to the sky. When one of the...

My clients usually ask me what their chances are in court. This is not merely to satisfy natural anticipation, but also to have plans in place in case they are convicted, and depending on the type of conviction and sentence. I do my best to...

For my criminal defense clients, I am here to help them get back to harmony and balance from the imbalanced situation of their prosecution. My clients manage this imbalance in ways, ranging from equanimity, to trying to submerge their concerns, to sleeplessness, to often starting...

Not long after I posted yesterday’s blog entry on the persuasive power of treating the battlefield as a playground, I benefitted again from keeping those principles in mind when maintaining equanimity when an unanticipated arrow was sent my way, disintegrating the arrow into a spot of...

My teacher Ram Dass talks of everyone being connected to everyone and everything else, to the point that if we reached non-duality, we would perceive of everything and everyone as an indivisible whole. See page 173 (apparently from Ram Dass’s 1970’s lecture in Maryland). If...

Five months ago, I blogged about winning a driving while intoxicated trial when the judge ruled that the police stope of my client’s car was unconstitutional, for being based on no more than a hunch about whether my client or his passenger had been involved in an amorphous...

A psychological experiment was performed with alcoholics, administering electrical shocks to them each time they drank liquor. At least some of them continued to imbibe despite the shocks. I have heard stories of people so addicted to crack cocaine that they have sold crack to...

My clients tend not to care how I win for them as long as I win, even if through a final dismissal rather than through the greater excitement of an acquittal. Recently, I got a case dismissed due to the Sixth Amendment violation of my...

Why do people smoke fake marijuana — sometimes called K2 or spice — versus the real and safer McCoy served up from mother nature? To pass employers’ urine drug tests? To avoid being detected as easily as cops can detect marijuana’s unique stink when smoked?...

I knew a trial judge in my home state of Connecticut starting before he became a judge, and referred to him a few times to a family member as the “hanging judge”, because I was not fond to learn that he apparently was okay with the...