Criminal Defense
Clearing the distractions to success – Effectively standing up for what is right without being merely reactive
A key to personal and professional success is to start by looking inward. Yes, we must engage with the reality and world around us. Yes ,we must help others as well as ourselves, and not just ourselves. To engage and help others and ourselves the...
Courthouse pollution is a manageable obstacle that never needs to sap strength
Pollution in the courthouse battlefield and everywhere else, is a manageable obstacle that never needs to sap strength. With that, today I jotted down the following thoughts: High vibration and light can disinfect, neutralize and transmute crud.
Former Virginia government Bob McDonnell obtains rare Supreme Court prison stay
Sentenced to two years in prison for public corruption, former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell has by now spent substantially more funds than any financial benefit he obtained from his convicted corruption, on top of great angst and likely losing any chance of becoming president or...
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,...
Voice of America Afrique radio (French) interviews Jon about the rising U.S. murder rate
Interview of Jon Katz about the murder rate in the United States.
Winning a DWI trial by putting our own traffic stop witness on the stand
It is St. Patrick’s Day evening, and a police officer testifies at my client’s bench DWI trial that he stopped my military-enlisted client for blowing a traffic light that was solid red for my client at all times, with the officer driving a few car lengths behind...
Virginia- Police may not inventory-search cars with unfettered discretion
When police claim the accused possessed contraband, a key path of attack is to seek to suppress evidence of the seizure and search that turned up the alleged contraband. Praised be Virginia’s intermediate appellate court for recently overturning a contraband-bearing car inventory search, because: “[W]e...