Fairfax drug lawyer
Partying – Fairfax criminal lawyer on independence from convictions
Partying this July 4 weekend means that police / law enforcement officers (LEOs) will be out in swarms, looking to investigate and arrest people for suspected driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs (DUI / DWI), assault, and drug possession, like bear awaiting salmon...
Search arguments are essential says Fairfax criminal lawyer
Search arguments are needed when your Virginia prosecution is based on the alleged discovery of controlled substances or other alleged contraband. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, i know it is important that if you lose your evidence suppression motion under the foregoing circumstances, to talk...
Pretextual surrogacy bars inventorying, says Fairfax criminal lawyer
Pretextual inventory searches of police-stopped automobiles -- where the real police motive is to conduct an unlawful search -- are inevitably going to take place in this climate where appellate court caselaw allows police to stop a motor vehicle for a moving violation, where the...
Cocaine Convictions by Admission – Fairfax Criminal Lawyer Explains
Cocaine convictions and all other convictions often come about only because the suspect / Virginia criminal defendant did not assert their Constitutional right to silence under the Fifth Amendment. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I cheer when defendants assert that right, and often bury my...
Occupying a car with drugs- Fairfax criminal lawyer comments
Occupying a car containing drugs is risky. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I say that a person's head is in the clouds to think that it is safe to ride in such a car on the basis of figuring that every person is responsible for...
Drug dealing prosecution defenses addressed by Fairfax criminal lawyer
Drug dealing convictions in Virginia can result from matching packaging and so-called expert testimony about intent to distribute. As a Fairfax drug lawyer, I know the risk of the presence near drugs risking a prosecution and conviction for possessing or trafficking in those drugs. Consequently,...
Drug death can lead to a Virginia homicide conviction, says Fairfax lawyer
Drug death happens too often from overdosing on illegal drugs. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that opioids often are the culprit in such deaths, not helped at all by physicians who overprescribe Oxycodone, then deny addicted patients' frantic requests to accelerate the Oxy...
Toking pot as a civil offense- Fairfax criminal defense lawyer weighs in
Toking pot is popular with millions of people. As a Fairfax criminal defense lawyer, I know that Virginia's governor has approved legislation decriminalizing marijuana, with a few minor recommended amendments. Virginia SB 2. July 1, 2020 is the default date for new Virginia legislation to...
Opioids with Xanax risk driving safety says Fairfax criminal defense lawyer
Opioids are already known to be very risky to one's health. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that people risk a DUI under the influence of drugs prosecution for driving after ingesting dangerous drugs or mixing medications in dangerous combinations. Such a dangerous combination...
Sea change with chief NoVa prosecutors- Fairfax DUI lawyer weighs in
Sea changes are happening that benefit criminal defendants with the new Virginia chief prosecutors in Fairfax County, Arlington and Loudoun As a Fairfax DUI lawyer, I see numerous personnel changes at these Virginia commonwealth attorneys' offices; more flexibility with numerous case negotiations; and more opportunity...