Criminal Defense

One will not do well as a military soldier to kvetch about brutal biting flies, heat rashes, leeches, and searing heat while overloaded with baggage in unfamiliar lands where the opposing fighters navigate and integrate with every inch of the terrain as easily and without...

In Virginia, a party to a criminal action may not be issued a subpoena duces tecum, ordering the production of records or other tangible items.

Again and again, I hear my clients who look successful on paper tell me of the pressures that led them to improvidently get behind the wheel after drinking, grow marijuana at home rather than seeking legal alternatives, and risk their security clearances by seeking prostitution...

Why postpone a Virginia General District Court trial at all? Possibly to further address new evidence or other discovery that has been obtained on the trial date. Possibly to work further on settlement negotiations.

In Virginia, the felony theft threshold is $200. Setting aside the injustice of such a low threshold for distinguishing between facing up to a year in jail for misdemeanor theft and twenty years for felony theft, the prosecutor must prove that $200 value threshold beyond...

Most criminal defense lawyers have a high number of clients who actually committed a criminal act. That reality does not automatically preclude an outright acquittal or dismissal.

Prince William County, Virginia, police officer Ashley Guindon was slain when responding to a domestic violence call,

Trial judges have nothing to lose and often much to gain by permitting at least brief voir dire/cross examination of prosecution witnesses before a damning exhibit is offered into evidence.

Many times I write about addressing challenges in dealing with clients, judges, juries, prosecutors and witnesses. Another challenge sometimes arises in dealing with fellow criminal defense lawyers, including in the following ways:

Rather than my amplifying opinions that already have been stated about the court order for Apple to help the FBI with a backdoor around its iPhone security protection, I provide the following additional thoughts and court documents.