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Controlling runaway prosecution witnesses- Doing it right in VA

August 11, 2022

Controlling runaway prosecution witnesses is an approach and skill that is essential in a criminal defense lawyer's arsenal. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I accept as a given that plenty of Virginia police and civilian prosecution witnesses are going to try to take control of...

Cross exam in Virginia trials addressed by Fairfax criminal lawyer

September 15, 2021

Cross exam is a vital part of Virginia criminal trial persuasion. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I have experienced and seen the critical difference between simply participating in trial advocacy law school classes and continuing legal education programs, and actually doing effective cross in the...

Trial skills are essential for the defense, says Fairfax criminal lawyer

August 27, 2021

Trial skills are essential for all criminal defense lawyers, and are only learned and refined best through doing actual trials. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I am fortunate to have taken hundreds of cases to trial, refining my persuasive abilities all the more with each...

Captivating The Jury – Fairfax Criminal Lawyer On Persuading Jurors

June 6, 2020

Captivating jurors in a persuasive, real, and in the moment manner can help them forget any negative preconceived notions about criminal defense lawyers, and lead the jury to focus on the lawyer's words and word images instead. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know the...

Testimony by criminal defendants – Fairfax criminal lawyer

June 9, 2019

Testimony in court by criminal defendants needs to be carefully and thoroughly prepared in tandem with the defendant's attorney. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that the decision whether to testify -- thus waiving the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to remain silent -- is...

Virginia Criminal Defense – Beware when District Court recordings boomerang back at you

December 19, 2016

In this day and age of quality and relatively inexpensive recording devices, Virginia should join the 21st century by having its District Courts record their proceedings. Until that day comes, I will bring a court reporter or my audio recorder, depending on the situation.

When a judge makes an improvident evidentiary ruling at trial

February 28, 2016

Trial judges have nothing to lose and often much to gain by permitting at least brief voir dire/cross examination of prosecution witnesses before a damning exhibit is offered into evidence.

Terry MacCarthy’s positive approach to persuasion

September 28, 2015

Long ago I watched a video of Terry demonstrating what he calls look good cross examination, where the cross examiner persuades not just with his or her words and with emphatically delivering those words, but also with his body language, for instance re-enacting a shooting...

My Duty as a Fairfax criminal lawyer is to win

October 8, 2014

My duty as a Fairfax criminal lawyer is to sin. A client recently remarked how he was impressed to see me good-naturedly bantering in the hallway with the same police against whom I did not let go of during cross examination at trial an hour...

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