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Curtilage seizure in DWI investigation addressed by Fairfax DUI lawyer

November 11, 2020

Curitlage seizures take place when police detain a person on “'the land immediately surrounding and associated with the home.'" Saal v. Virginia, 848 S.E.2d 612 (2020) (quoting Oliver v. U.S.., 466 U.S. 170 (1984). As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I know that because "the curtilage is 'considered...

Search warrants based on curtilage violation are invalid says Fairfax lawyer

February 12, 2019

Search warrants do not automatically preclude successful Fourth Amendment challenges. Today, Ian Christian Carlson happily saw that truism applied to his benefit. Carlson v. Virginia. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that police generally are barred from investigating for possible criminal activity by going...

Privacy rights preserved- Reversing crabbed Virginia Supreme Ct. opinion

May 29, 2018

Fairfax criminal lawyer celebrates SCOTUS's keeping some teeth in the Fourth Amendment. Privacy rights are critical to criminal defense, including the essential Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures and against warrantless searches that require search warrants only issued upon probable cause. As a...

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Curtilage seizure in DWI investigation addressed by Fairfax DUI lawyer

Search warrants based on curtilage violation are invalid says Fairfax lawyer

Privacy rights preserved- Reversing crabbed Virginia Supreme Ct. opinion

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