Underdog Blog – Fairfax Criminal Defense Lawyer | Virginia DUI Attorney

Fairfax LEO mall shooting was the headline last year when a police officer (Wesley Shifflett) from this county shot dead a suspect (Timonthy Johnson) fleeing the law enforcement officer(s) outside Tysons mall. As a Virginia criminal lawyer, I was disturbed, to say the least, at...

Fully engaging the person an attorney wants to persuade is essential. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer that truism was again proven when I negotiated a wet reckless disposition (without active jail time, a modest fine, and liberal restricted driving privileges) from a Virginia DUI prosecution...

Fairfax bench members -- meaning judges on that county's District and Circuit Courts -- mean business. This is true for all judges before whom I have appeared thousands of times during my criminal defense career. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know this to be...

Inconsistent Virginia prosecution witness testimony is not a winnable appelate issues, says Fairfax criminal lawyer Inconsistent testimony (IT) from Virginia prosecution witnesses can be unsettling and even maddening to people with a conscience. Nonetheless, as a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that unless the IT...

Virginia DUI device conversion is on the horizon. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know this change is coming after the Intox EC/IR II breathzlyzer device was used for years, which replaced the Intoxilyzer 5000 that was used for many years. With each breathalyzer machine...

Contest your Virginia pretrial release orders when winnable, whether those orders be to keep you inside the commonwealth, to require you to participate in pretrial release programs, or any other pretrial conditions you wish to appeal. Watch out, though, about whether such challenges will lead...

Fairfax holiday arrests and all arrests call for full defense. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that police seek out crimes and alleged crimes relating to holiday merrymaking, like bear waiting for salmon spawning upstream. Between now and the new year festivities, you can...

Fairfax crimmigration risks may increase with the state governor's recent threat of withholding funding from jurisdictions that do not assist federal immigration authorities. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I recognize that the governor's proposed budget may or may not get legislative passage for funding to...

Fairfax ACAs (Assistant Commonwealth's Attorneys) mean business. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I underline that to my clients, for them not to be lulled into a false sense of security that somehow the chief prosecutor's self-given "progressive" moniker means that all will go okay with...

Nonviolent felons (NF or NF's) have available in Virginia courts an argument that the the Constitution's Second Amendment bars convicting them for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer I know that this argument is preserved by the...