Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

Why do so many people freak about public human nudity, about letting it all hang out, when nobody freaks out that all other animals walk around nude? The human lack of fur does not answer the question, because I can spot a male elephant from...

Our tax dollars pay prosecutors and police to serve the people, including those they arrest and prosecute, not just to serve the amorphous “people that I — the cop or prosecutor — am here to protect.” How many police, prosecutors and other civil servants see...

When my clients get arrested for drunk driving in Virginia, sometimes I mention how much better they would have fared in Maryland, which has no mandatory minimum jail sentencing for first-time driving while intoxicated (DWI) defendants, less harsh sanctions than Virginia on driving for first-time...

At trial, cross-examining a runaway police officer can be dangerous. Ask the officer whether the alleged criminal incident was recorded by audio and/or video, and s/he might reply: “Recording was not necessary, seeing that officer A saw the defendant sell cocaine to a pedestrian, officer B...

Here is an overview of events leading to my recent trial win for a 0.14 blood draw case in Virginia General District Court. GDC: The police officer testified to seeing my client’s car stuck in a ditch, and my client’s saying he drove the car and nothing to drink...

The naturally-placed pause has power. I only wish the following people knew it and applied it. One day, I took a taxi in Washington, D.C., and at the destination the driver quoted a fee that was at least fifty percent higher than the then-in-force zone...

I grew up with a lot of anger. Of course, anger is rooted in fear. When I did not feel anger, I often felt a lot of tension. It took decades for me to come to sufficient grips with the bigotry that so many people directed...

When I started practicing at my first law firm in 1989, I received a gift of two high-priced framed antique magazine caricatures of dead white British lawyers wearing powdered horse hair wigs. They have remained in their original box ever since. Gone must be the days...

Recently — I think in one of Ram Dass’s two recent books — I was re-reminded how important it is not to take others’ seeming trespasses personally. For instance, if person A is yelling at person B, that may be more of a manifestation of...

All trials on behalf of criminal defendants have their own challenges and opportunities. Here are some significant challenges that will or might come the way of a criminal defense lawyer in a multidefendant case: The co-defendants’ lawyers must find as much harmonious effort as possible in...