Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

Criminal defense is battle — and sometimes war — pure and simple. I have no business taking on a client unless I will take off the boxing gloves and focus on victory at every turn, within the bounds of professional conduct rules, without concern about decimating the...

A great number of my clients probably have committed the crimes they are charged with committing. A large percentage of my trial acquittals has likely been for people who committed the alleged crimes. Whether my clients have or have not committed the alleged crimes, and...

“Perhaps someone could have made us feel a little more human–at times I felt like rats in a cage.” – Juror The foregoing is the lead quote from a 1998 study from the National Center for State Courts entitled Through the Eyes of the Juror:...

Stage-fright is common among lawyers, criminal defendants, witnesses, jurors and everyone else who appears before a judge and jury. In that regard, I understand that even Yul Brynner, with many performances of The King and I behind him, would still precede his stage appearances with...

The amazing Sunwolf inspires me to see reality as no obstacle in the fight for my clients. As I repeatedly tell my clients when advising them to plead innocent and go to trial, that is the only way to have a shot at beating the...

On September 9, 2011, the London Telegraph quoted me about former Yahoo! chief executive Carol Bartz’s non-disparagement clause, concerning her public complaints that the Yahoo! board "f—- her over" and about the board as "doofuses". Although the article only covers snippets of my interview, I underlined to the...

In the past, when people asked me if I did family law, I sometimes would respond that I am more than happy for other lawyers to have to deal with levels of obsession among their clients that apparently are much higher than among criminal defense...

When police stop a car using radar or laser for speeding charges, I ordinarily only step into the picture for motions to suppress the stop and for jailable reckless driving charges in Virginia, as I do not tend to defend non-jailable moving violation charges. When I...

In my second semester of law school, my eyes glazed over about the trade-school-sounding aspect of our moot court instructor’s intensely instructing us on the minutiae of using the right color for our appellate legal brief covers – blue for the appellant and red for...

Canada/the Great White North has many great places to visit. Beyond its cities is much natural beauty and a much lower average population per square mile than the United States. Quebec and Ontario are pleasant drives from my home. Get a drunk driving/DWI/DUI conviction (and numerous...