Bill of Rights
Operating a car containing drugs- Fairfax criminal lawyer cautions
Operating a car that contains drugs, concealed weapons (other than with a concealed carry permit or in a closed container), stolen property, and other contraband risks your being arrested, prosecuted, and even convicted for those items, even if you did not know they were present....
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...
Delivering Clients Victory Keeps Me on the Criminal Defense Path
Virginia criminal lawyer's calling on the defense path. Delivering clients victory keeps me on the criminal defense path. More than that, I am always motivated to persuade judges, jurors, and prosecutors, while standing up to the prosecutors, police, opposing witnesses and lawmakers who want my...
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;"
Police shortcuts and police willful ignorance contribute to reasonable doubt
When police fall short of their obligations, their failures must not be shifted towards and into the victimization of criminal suspects and criminal defendants. To do otherwise will turn the Bill of Rights into more of a farce than they already have been turned into...
Be ready for a full criminal defense battle, particularly because too many police, prosecutors and judges are hostile to criminal defendants
Those seeking convictions will love nothing better than a complacent criminal defense lawyer and criminal defendant. Complacency has no proper role in criminal defense. The battle lines are drawn at the moment the criminal defendant is charged with a crime, and from there the battle...
Critical Crossroads for Overhauling the Police State, Supporting Good Policing and Speaking Out Against Police Abuse
The United States is at a critical crossroads for overhauling the police state, supporting good policing and speaking out over wrong policing, in the face of widespread police abuse, with some of the starker recent examples being the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner,...