firearms

Principal in second degree (PSD) convictions cannot be obtained merely because the defendant was present at the time of the crime. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that such convicteions require actual or constructive presene at the crime scene together with an over act...

Elements of the charged crime (ECC) are essential for your attorney to challenge. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that a prosecutor "bears the burden to prove each element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt." Goldman v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 74 Va. App. 556, 562 (2022) (citing Kenner v. Com., 71 Va....

Drug proximity can be risky, unless possessed lawfully by prescription or as over the counter products. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that police do not hesitate to arrest everyone near contolled substances, and to let the criminal defendants aregue why they are not...

Firearm drug defense goes against two Virginia statutory monstrosities. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer I am constantly working to avoid the harsh collateral consequences and sentences that can follow from a drug conviction, a firearm / handgun / pistol / weapon conviction, or from a...

Machine guns (MGs) are not created from bump stocks. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer and civil libertarian, I believe in a gun laws, firearms laws, and a Second Amendment with teeth limiting prosecutions and convictions. As with recent Second Amendment protections from the Supreme Court,...