Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

Thanksgiving DWI arrests are bound to be at a higher rate than such detentions for most other weekends for alleged violations of Virginia's law against driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs under Virginia Code § 18.2-266. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I know that the...

Four Northern Virginia commonwealth's attorneys / chief prosecutors started office nearly four years ago on progressive prosecution (PP)  platforms. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I know that claims of progressiveness only help Virginia criminal defendants when put into action, and that we criminal defense lawyers...

Fight any Virginia protective order / no contact / stay away petition notice you receive. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that even when protective order proceedings are technically civil without a prosecutor, that the violation of an issued protective order -- whether filed...

Fairfax expungement motions --and all Virginia expungement motions -- are not guaranteed to win, but are ordinarily worth filing if you are eligible for and want such relief. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I know that my colleagues and I were not thrilled with a...

Fairfax judicial schedules in General District Court (GDC) were posted weekly until a few years ago, while Circuit Court judges' names were not as easy to determine in advance other than for the names of the two Friday criminal motions hearing judges, and Juvenile &...

Persistence in Virginia DWI plea negotiations can sometimes yield big payoffs when the persistence comes with a roadmap, and is not about repetition nor (worse) betting.  As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I used such persistence recently in obtaining a spectacular negotiating result of two wet...

Evidentiary rulings in your Virginia DWI or criminal trial can be favorable, unfavorable or both. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I read with glee about a correct judicial ruling to exclude a blood test certificate of analysis (showing the defendant's purported blood alcohol level (BAC))...

Labor Day weekend Virginia DWI arrests tend to be more common than during most weekends, not only because of all the merrymaking before the unofficial end of summer, but also because police are often on the streets and outside the bars in greater force, approaching...

Contesting Vrginia firearm prosecution sometimes needs to draw on the protections of the Constitution's Second Amendment. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that we Virginia criminal defense lawyers must not rely on Constitutional arguments of statutory invalidity alone in pursuing victory for our clients,...

Lawyerless police investigations of Virginia DWI suspects are par for the course. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I know that this state of affairs makes it all the more important for you in advance to know of your Constitutional Fifth Amendment right to remain silent,...