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Jon Katz’s victories

Northern Virginia DWI defense- Fairfax DUI lawyer gives legal gifts

April 19, 2024

Northern Virginia DWI defense is not monolithic. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I know this to be true in terms of each Virginia county or city prosecutor's office and each line prosecutor, who usually has a wide degree of discretion for negotiating case settlements /...

Overcover your Virginia DWI defense risk says Fairfax DUI lawyer

April 14, 2024

Overcover risk in defending in against your Virginia DWI prosecution. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I repeatedly tell clients never to expect as a given that a favorable plea deal will be reached nor that the judge and jury will be favorably disposed to the...

Possibilities abound in your Fairfax DUI defense & VA crim defense

March 15, 2024

Possibilities abound in your Fairfax DUI defense and Virginia criminal defense. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I have many times heard my clients tell me about other attorneys who have told them how tough are their cases, only for me to achieve great results for...

Fairfax DUI prosecution- Converting it to an infraction

March 9, 2024

Fairfax DUI prosecution defense calls for a full court press. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, recently I obtained two great results against such prosecutions, those being converting a DWI prosecution to the lowest category of infraction with a high fine, and converting a DWI 0.24...

Fairfax DUI success- VA DWI lawyer obtains reckless results

March 1, 2024

Fairfax DUI success FDS does not come from wishful thinking, but by keeping one's nose to the grindstone, by obtaining the best possible Virginia DWI lawyer for you, and by working closely as a team with your attorney. As a Fairfax DWI lawyer, in the...

DWI motion power addressed by Fairfax DUI lawyer

February 9, 2024

DWI motion power can be significant. Whether or not this was mere coincidence, recently within hours of my filing a motion to suppress evidence in a DUI case, the prosecutor emailed me offering to amend the charge to improper driving -- which is the lowest...

Dry reckless obtained by Fairfax DUI Lawyer on 0.17 BAC

December 12, 2023

Dry reckless (DR) dispositions (under Virginia Code § 46.2-852 are not nearly as common as wet reckless (carrying a suspended driving period up to six months (with restricted driving privileges) and mandating completion of VASAP / Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program for settling Virginia DWI prosecutions alleging...

DUI victory only comes after a not guilty plea, says Fairfax lawyer

November 28, 2023

DWI victory -- and any criminal trial win -- can only follow a not guilty / innocent plea. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I know that this concept is at once a truism but also hard for at least a handful defendants to choose, at...

DWI prosecution deadline obtains win- Fairfax DUI lawyer weighs in

November 24, 2023

DWI prosecution deadlines -- and all Virginia criminal law deadlines -- are critical for your lawyer to know. As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I know that one year from the incident date is the deadline for filing a prosecution for a Virginia misdemeanor DWI charge...

Persistence leads to avoiding a Virginia DUI conviction

September 21, 2023

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...

He is always prepared and has thoughtful arguments for the Court to consider

Jon is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable lawyers in the Area. He is always willing to help and teach younger attorneys the ins and outs of the good practice of law. He is always prepared and has thoughtful arguments for the Court to consider.

Terry Adams
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He runs a meticulous outfit, and his support staff was excellent.

FAIRFAX CRIMINAL LAWYER I met Jon two days ago. He had started driving from Fairfax at six in the morning – crossing nearly the entire state to defend me in a small town that looked like it was frozen in the nineteen-forties.

The town looked like a set for Mississippi Burning. There were some beautiful buildings – but it also seemed menacing. I had been charged in this small town, and had spent months trying to arrange an adequate legal defense – from my home in Miami.

When I was first charged, I was overwhelmed by the situation. I then did what you are doing now: looked thru online reviews for the best lawyer for my case. Jon fit the bill so I called him. Since then, it has been several weeks of intense back and forth with him. He runs a meticulous outfit, and his support staff was excellent. They worked very hard to collect and compile all the useful documents. Everything worked. No mistakes.

I had multiple phone conversations with Jon, but, because of the long distance, had not met him in person. The court date was two days ago. I had arranged to meet Jon in a diner a few blocks from the courthouse. Before Jon arrived, I was in pretty bad shape. I had made a series of stupid mistakes, which had led to the charges, and I understood that, if things didn’t break my way – I was facing serious prison time. Jon walked into the diner, and sat down across from me. He has more than a passing resemblance to Bobby Kennedy. He also has something rare: Star Power. People in the diner, and later in the courthouse, followed him with their eyes. He is a person who immediately meets your eyes, and holds the eye contact. It was like suddenly being in a John Grisham movie, and you are on the side of the angels. Think of it like having Gus Grissom from CSI Las Vegas, sit down across from you at a diner- and he says he can help you. Jon ordered a black coffee and lifted two huge brown paper binders on to the table. He carefully flipped thru pages that he and his staff had organized with tabs. He had all my important defense documents immediately accessible.

Jon and I walked a few blocks to the courthouse. The sky was a steely overcast slate grey. We went thru the security guards with their holstered Glocks. He went thru some heavy doors to talk to the Prosecutor. The court doors then opened and we were directed to approach the bench. The prosecutor was an attractive woman, in a perfectly tailored outfit. She started talking to the Judge and seemed to be advocating FOR ME! I don’t fully understand what happened, but Jon had arranged for the case to be amended downwards, and then an on the spot dismissal with no guilty plea, no conviction, and several thousand dollar fines were reduced to a hundred dollar court cost.

We left the Courthouse – back into the worn brick town. He drove me to my hotel in his vintage sport’s car. I was left standing there outside my hotel on a cold January day in rural Virginia. My life had changed in a matter of hours. Jon had saved my life.

K. H.
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I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome and it was a lesson learned.

A few years ago when I was younger I got DWI and the next day was pulled over driving without a license since it was suspended due to the DWI the night before. Talk about double bad luck. Anyways I went to several lawyers but I didn’t feel they were the right ones until I went to see Jon. At first he didn’t want to take the case because he felt it was to easy and wasn’t challenging. Here I’m thinking he must be out of his mind, I’m in big hole with two different court dates and he thinks it’s not a big deal for him to take it on. Anyways to make this short, I ended up hiring him as my lawyer and he knew exactly how to handle each of the prosecutors for the different court dates and the DWI was reduced to reckless and the charges for driving on suspended license was 7 days restriction. I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome and it was a lesson learned.

F. C.
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Jon Katz’s victories

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