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Harsh Virginia drug laws- Fairfax criminal lawyer on avoiding them
Harsh Virginia drug laws remain despite the commonwealth's liberalization personal marijuana use. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I see this week's harsh nine-year prison sentence for Brittney Griner for smuggling less than a gram of THC oil as an opportunity for prosecutors, judges and jurors...
Virginia drug overdose safety valve- View of Fairfax criminal lawyer
Virginia drug overdose situations have the potential of barring a conviction when the criminal defendant meets the standards of the commonwealth's good samaritan law for ovedosing drug users. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I find it wonderful that -- for the time being -- overdosing...
Booze Flows in Virginia – Fairfax Criminal Lawyer Weighs in
Booze is a big business in Virginia. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that the Virginia governor lists liquor stores (only government-run stores may sell alcoholic beverages other than beer and wine) as essential businesses on par with grocery stores during is stay at...
Cannabis decriminalization passes House panel- Fairfax criminal lawyer
Cannabis decriminalization and legalization movement has been proceeding at a dizzying pace in numerous states over the last years, after previous decades of organization, toil and sweat by marijuana activists nationwide. As a Fairfax criminal defense lawyer, I deeply thank these activists for their accomplishments,...
Impairment is not usually shown by blood drug levels – Fairfax DUI lawyer
Impairment cannot usually be established by blood drug levels. As a Virginia DUI attorney, I know that the totality of the circumstances must be considered in determining whether a DWI defendant has been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, rather than resorting to the overly...
Strangulation prosecutions in Virginia – Fairfax assault lawyer
Strangulation is a felony in Virginia, versus simple assault being a misdemeanor. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that a strangulation conviction does not require extreme choking. Virginia's strangulation statute provides that: "Any person who ... impedes the blood circulation or respiration of another...
The politics of grouping pot, Adderall & LSD with PCP and fentanyl
The drug war is bankrupt. Federal, state and local governments have poured billions of dollars into the drug wars for over five decades, with little more to show for it than America's failed trillion dollar years-long war in Vietnam. Sun Tzu wisely advised against long...
National Academy of Sciences releases lengthy report on “Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids”
On January 12, 2017, the National Academy of Sciences released its lengthy report on "Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids." The report is too lengthy for me to have reviewed yet. A cursory check seems to show the report's recognizing potential medical benefits of cannabis/marijuana,...
None of us is safe from being prosecuted, making effective assistance of criminal counsel essential
None of us are safe from being prosecuted, making effective assistance of criminal counsel essential. Too many politicians, police and prosecutors have a penchant for painting the criminal law in terms of black and white: "You do the crime, you do the time;"
Linwood Lambert of Virginia died after twenty tasings
Recently, video footage was released of South Boston, Virginia, police in 2013 repeatedly tasing handcuffed Linwood Lambert, who died soon thereafter.