Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

A criminal defense lawyer at once needs abundant compassion, empathy, and a cast-iron stomach. Even with that ongoing goal, I am still retching over yesterday’s Virginia appellate case opinion concerning the following allegations proven against a woman — and apparently admitted to by her trial testimony —...

Virginia drunk driving convictions carry harsh results, including one year of no driving except for restricted purposes permitted by the court, mandatory ignition interlock coming your way regardless of the blood alcohol content, and expensive total payments for an attorney, fines and costs, and mandatory...

One day I had breakfast with a local top-notch veteran medical malpractice lawyer who seems to deeply care about his clients and the quality of his work. To this day, he has not found a way to save time by limiting his potential client meetings...

DEFENDING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND SOLICITATION OF SEX WITH CHILDREN. By Jon Katz “Why do you want to defend such a case?” asked one of the most amazing and effective trial consultants/psychological professionals, whom I visited for ideas on defending a man caught distributing multiple images...

When a lawyer fully prepares a case to go to trial, it is more likely to settle than when a lawyer prepares the case to settle. I prepare every case to go to trial, and take many of them to trial. The preparation increases my victories,...

The three basics of effective trial advocacy, and persuasion beyond the law, are knowledge/intelligence/preparation, skill/experience, and passion/conviction. They all need to be synthesized into a harmonious whole. Passion, conviction, and persuasion are major hallmarks of the Trial Lawyers College, which I attended for four weeks in August...

Another reason to fight DWI cases tooth and nail In The Forty Year Old Virgin, one of the hero’s drunk prospects asks him to blow into a tube into her car, and away they recklessly go. He did not at the time realize that he...

BBC interviewed me today 1:30pm EDT at its Washington, D.C., television studio, for TV Channel 1’s South East Today, about Briton Christopher Tappin’s extradition and armaments prosecution, now that he is scheduled to be taken soon to the United States by extradition order. BBC Radio Kent interviews...

Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), must be kept sacrosanct, so that law enforcement will properly advise suspects in custody of their right to remain silent, and honor that right, so that the Fifth Amendment has real meaning in assuring that one not be...

If given a choice between having my client’s drunk driving case prosecuted in Virginia or Maryland, ordinarily I would choose Maryland. In the Maryland counties where I practice most often, including Montgomery, Prince George’s, and Howard, ordinarily, absent such unusual circumstances as a bad accident...