Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

Budgeting for your DWI defense means sending your Virginia DUI lawyer to courtroom battle with a proverbial submachine gun rather than a water pistol, ready to do the job by a progression of threat by display,  whacking the opponent, firing individual bullets, and spraying a...

Scrutinizing the credibility, reliability and recall of prosecution witnesses must be exercised fully and carefully by every prosecutor, rather than the practice I have seen too often in too many prosecutors in viewing a Virginia DUI or criminal defendant as guilty merely because they have...

Cross examining (CE or Xexamine) police is an essential tool for the defense against Virginia DUI prosecutions. As a Fairfax DWI lawyer, I know that the Constitution's Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause and Virginia appellate court caselaw guarantee this CE right. I also know that many...

LEP (limited English proficiency) Virginia criminal defendants are already challenged by insufficient statewide rigor for court interpreters, because interpreter certification is only encouraged but not mandatory under the Virginia Code and other governing provisions. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know this state of affairs...

Convicting for assault in the commonwealth requires an overt act, says Virginia criminal lawyer Convicting for assault (for instance under Virginia Code § 18.2-57 cannot merely happen with testimony that the complainant / alleged victim feared the defendant for his or her threatening words. As...

Virginia corporal punishment defense is so favorable to parents that it might create cringing in those who believe in rarely if ever laying disciplinary or punishing hands on one's child. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, my sole obligation and goal for a client charged with...

Virginia DUI matters of law are decided by the judge rather than by a jury. As a Fairfax DWI lawyer, I know this can temper the level of excitement over getting a second bite at the apple by appealing a conviction in a Virginia District...

Virginia abduction law (VA law) underlines how humorless is the commonwealth's body of criminal law. As a Fairfax crininal lawyer, I know that a judge will not have any sympathy with any argument that the commonly understood meaning of abduction is forcibly bringing a person...

Defending against Virginia prosecutions is my profession, and is about protecting the Constitution's Bill of Rights, mainly the Fourth Amendment right against unlawful police searches, seizures and arrests; the Fifth Amendment's assurances that a criminal suspect's affirmative assertion of silence not be used against him...

Hearsay evidence faces more lax standards for admissibility than at a Virginia criminal trial. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I regret this state of affairs, but it is a reality that must be reckoned with. This is among the reasons that Virginia criminal defendants should...