Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

Negotiating Virginia DUI and criminal case settlements for the defense is not only a fine art that is ideally developed through years of relevant experience, but requires  humanizing the client with a prosecutor who undoubtedly has a very large number of cases to handle both...

Virginia criminal evidence law will not save a defendant from the jury's from knowing the racism he has spewed, when relevant to the intent element of his prosecution. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know how badly criminal defendants' injudiciously-uttered words can come back to...

Expert testimony is involved in many of my Virginia DUI and criminal trials. As a Fairfax DWI lawyer, I further address here some of the key aspects of the law governing expert testimony in Virginia criminal trials, including when the defense calls a forensic toxicologist...

Fairfax opinion letters from Circuit Court judges -- as with such opinion letters throughout the state -- bond no judges, but can still act as persuasive authority, and certainly provide further insight into the Virginai judge writing the opinion. As a Fairfax Criminal lawyer, I...

Fairfax options exist exist in court for criminal defendants with drug, alcohol behavioral issues. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that such defendants need to consider whether such court options will be more beneficial or not to their case. I also know that drug...

Waiting is not something people instinctively enjoy, whether that be for their Virginia criminal or DUI case to be called, being caught in heavy traffic, and many other circumstances. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that time is a commodity, and that patience can...

Virginia convictions are a scarlet letter. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that before such harshness can be inflicted on a criminal defendant. I also know that jury instructions on the applicable law must be sufficiently worded, so as to avoid convictions based on...

Fairfax discovery in criminal district court cases for many years often only showed up on the first court date or at best not long before. As a Fairfax DUI and criminal lawyer, in the last few months I experienced sometimes receiving such discovery more quickly...

Virginia DUI negotiations -- and all criminal case negotiations -- must be backed up with full readiness and ability to proceed to trial and win. As a Fairfax DWI lawyer, that truism proved itself again when the prosecutor within the span of twenty-eight hours transitioned...

Virginia probation length and violation penalty caps screamed out for reasonable limits for decades. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I applaud that those probation violation sentencing caps finally have become law, effective the middle of this year. These caps mean that supervised probation for felony...