Flex Your Rights has added me to its eight-member Advisory Board. As a Fairfax Criminal Lawyer, I am honored to be joining such civil liberties fighters as Ira Glasser (Drug Policy Alliance president and past longtime ACLU exective director) and Billy Murphy, who is a...
Local news interviewed me on February 14, 2018, for its televised story aired the same date about the Virginia legislature-passed law permitting physicians to prescribe CBD and THC-A oils to patients. The local news segments with me begin here, shortly after minute 1:00. I blogged...
Fairfax DUI defense and DUI defense throughout Virginia often involves dealing with probation violation charges, and dealing with VASAP (the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program). Probation violation charges are too common but typically avoidable. Registering with VASAP is mandatory for anyone convicted in Virginia for...
It always is all the more an honor when a NORML chapter invites me to speak at one of their gatherings. My most recent such speaking engagement was at the Northern Virginia NORML's August 9 meeting in Arlington, Virginia. There, my talk on marijuana reform...
Clearly, VASAP should be abolished, and should be replaced by private drug and alcohol programs. Until such abolition, VASAP should be reformed to more routinely give credit for participation in private state-licensed alcohol and drug education programs. ...
Sticking a thumb in the eye of open and transparent government, democracy, and First Amendment protection, a majority of the Portsmouth, Virginia, city council took it upon itself, in haste all the worse, to add the following abomination to the city council rules of order...
Interview of Jon Katz about the murder rate in the United States. ...
On July 7, local Baltimore Fox 45 TV news interviewed me about Maryland's unconstitutionally vague and overbroad nine-year-old law that criminalizes such activities as allegedly photographing up women's skirts and down their tops, and even pruriently looking for longer than a brief moment at disrobing/exposed...
My interview starts at minute 4:00.On June 4, Voice of America television included me on a half-hour live French-speaking panel interview about the FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) scandal (see the lengthy official criminal charges). The program was broadcast to countries including French-speaking...
Successful trial work requires throwing one's entire self into smart, intuitive, and inspired case review and preparation; work with one's client and all witnesses; and sweat..By the time the lawyer appears in the courtroom stage, s/he should be so well prepared and ready to win that...
This year, the Voice of America and a freelance journalist with a major magazine interviewed me about the Boston marathon bombing trial against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, humanizing criminal defendants to jurors, and Tsarnaev's lawyer and my hero Judy Clarke.The Voice of America interview was videotaped in...
Two weeks ago, I returned for my somewhat annual speaking engagement with George Washington University's graduate Human Sexuality class. The class primarily is composed of students who want to be psychological counselors.Why are humans the only animals who need psychological counselors, self help books, and...
Now online is the D.C. Bar monthly magazine's cover article on mindfulness in the legal profession. The article quotes me at length.I frequently blog about the power of mindfulness in my life and legal practice. Mindfulness is simple to learn for its basics, and requires...
On June 25, 2014, the United States Supreme Court spectacularly ruled that the Fourth Amendment ordinarily requires police to obtain a search warrant before searching a seized cellphone. Riley v. California, ___ U.S. ___ (June 25,2014).Here is my June 25 interview on Riley on Russia Today television, which...
Recently, Kimberly Atkins at LegalNews.com interviewed me on the Prado Navarette v. California Supreme Court decision eroding the Fourth Amendment by giving too much credence to 911 callers. The reporter contacted me after reading my blog entry on the case. Here is the article that followed the interview, including a couple...
Fox News interviewed me for the third time in less than three months. on August 24 on Justice With Jeanine, about having non-English speakers on criminal juries.I came ready with many ideas, but, as is common for short interviews, the questions to me only...
Tomorrow night, Saturday, I return to Fox News's Jeanine Pirro show, which runs live 9:00-10:00 p.m. EDT. When I learn my likely timeslot, I will update that here.I will be appearing opposite Ann Coulter, discussing domestic drone spying.With Obama phone/Internet spying-gate and domestic drone...
Challenging Obama’s spying-gate. (Fox News, June 8, 2013).Fox News is a right wing darling. My own agenda when accepting or declining a media interview invitation is whether the interview will further my own agenda of spreading the gospel of justice. With that goal in...
By Jon Katz, a criminal defense lawyer and DWI/ DUI/ Drunk Driving lawyer advocating in Fairfax County, Virginia, Montgomery County, Maryland, and beyond for the best possible results for his clients.Earlier this week, Briton Sean Jude Kelly's allegedly drunken and "let's fight" behavior on...
Last Friday, I returned for my nearly annual invitation to speak with graduate students at George Washington University's Human Sexuality class. From what I can tell, the fields the students might go into include school counseling, mental hospitals, and private counseling.I provided this handout of...
