Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

My first few years as my own boss, starting in 1998, were immediately filled with joy over achieving my longtime dream of having no boss but myself. A corollary to being one’s own boss is that I have no salary safety net. I am the...

Police run the gamut of very intelligent to having spelling and grammar errors embarrassingly galore on their police reports. Sadly, plenty of otherwise intelligent criminal suspects think they can outsmart police. Even the most unintelligent police officer has the advantage over suspects by not being...

Will Rogers would have been a great trial lawyer. He never met a person he did not like, and had a very optimistic disposition. By contrast, when I entered law school, I saw a significant chunk of the world’s population as ready in a heartbeat...

On July 18, I discussed the state of racial injustice and racial justice in America in the aftermath of George Zimmerman’s trial, and said to stay tuned for my views on the criminal defense aspects of the case. George Zimmerman’s complete acquittal has led to...

One day, I called a criminal defense lawyer colleague in another county to ask about how to overcome some procedural hurdles peculiar to his county’s District Court judges in obtaining a trial date postponement. When I did not reach him, I spoke with colleague II in...

Recently, I have had to re-examine my stereotyping of prosecutors, judges and police, with the following events: A week ago, a Fairfax prosecutor with whom I get along with fine — we are able to disagree agreeably, at that — invited me to be his...

During the year between college and law school, I was a financial auditor at one of the nation’s then-thirty largest banks. We reviewed the bank’s financial activities to assure the bank was adhering to safe and sound financial practices. This was the closest I ever came...

If you have not before decided that the United States’ criminal "justice" system is overcriminalized, look no further than the recent San Diego vandalism prosecution against chalk protestor Jeff Olson. How can chalking be a crime, when it just washes away with the rain? How...

Yesterday, a jury acquitted my client of possessing with intent to distribute eight pounds of marijuana found in the backseat of his car, after we had lost our suppression hearing and were without a successful way to create doubt that this was anything other than...

Our tax dollars pay extraordinary amounts of money for law enforcement officers and prosecutors to spend countless hours each year to the tune of millions of dollars (if not billions of dollars) to further pursue the drug war that is a failure and an excessive incursion...