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Virginia drug law needs reform for treatment over punishment
Virginia drug law is overly harsh and too merciless. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know not only the damage done to Virginia criminal defendants by the decades-long drug wars, but also the excessive cost to our tax dollars and government budgets, and how the...
Female toplessness bans- TV interviews Fairfax criminal lawyer
Female toplessness is prosecutable in Virginia, but can be defended at the very least on claims that the display is non-obscene. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I was interviewed on this topic by Newsy Television, which broadcast this segment on August 23, 2022, which can...
Story power- Virginia criminal lawyer on persuasion through storytelling
“Did you do it?” “Did you kill Horace Jones?” Thus began the powerfully persuasive direct examination by lawyer JD with his client Zach Carson. Zach was so despondent after losing the love of his life, that he confessed to a murder he did not commit,...
Defending against Bill of Rights violations is part of Fairfax criminal defense
Defending against Virginia prosecutions is my profession, and is about protecting the Constitution's Bill of Rights, mainly the Fourth Amendment right against unlawful police searches, seizures and arrests; the Fifth Amendment's assurances that a criminal suspect's affirmative assertion of silence not be used against him...
Criminal Defense Victory with Powerful Calmness, Humor & Enchantment
Criminal defense victory usually does not come easy, but is more possible when the Virginia criminal lawyer is powerfully calm and maintains a sense of humor, wonder and enchantment in life. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know by experience the power of this approach,...
Flex Your Rights Advisory Board adds Fairfax criminal lawyer Jon Katz
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 Interviews Fairfax Criminal Lawyer Jon Katz on Marijuana Medicinal Extracts
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 – Handling probation violation charges and VASAP
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...
At NoVa NORML – Discussing Police, Weed and You – Your Liberty in the Balance
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...
DWI Defendants- Beware and abolish VASAP (the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program)
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.
