Fourth Amendment

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...

Police searches (PCs) for contraband are part of their stock in trade. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I constantly pursue ways to invalidate PCs and the fruits of those searches. One thing that would repeatedly confound me -- at least if not so commonplace --...

Car privacy (CP) is an oxymoron in Virginia. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that you can be a sitting duck for police if they pursue a fishing trip or worse against you in a motor vehicle that contains contraband or otherwise has evidence...

Intrusive warrantless searches of one's body are ripe for challenges. As a Fairfax drug lawyer, I am delighted that the Virginia Court of Appeals overturned a grossly bodily-invasive streetside search of a suspect, even pulling on his underwear to see his bare skin underneath, followed...

Complex legal issues and related law abound in criminal court, even with at-first seeming simple misdemeanor cases. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that many criminal cases that at first seem simple turn out to be anything but that. Your Virginia criminal lawyer needs...

Consent searches not only do not serve Virginia criminal suspects' interests, but invite huge headaches that could have been avoided or minimized by simply having declined a police search. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I remind you that you have a Fourth Amendment Constitutional right...

Virginia courts are not fully fair, if for no other reason than that the Supreme Court has for years not put enough teeth into such criminal defendant-oriented Constitutional amendments as the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, the Sixth Amendment right to challenge adverse out...

Presumptive police stops (PPSs) involve stopping a person for a purported minor reason with the intention of looking for possible evidence of more serious law violations. PPSs include stops for excessive window tint, a dangling object from one's window mirror, and not wearing a safety...

Fairfax drug defense calls for the Virginia criminal defense lawyer to be highly skilled at controlled substance defense specifically and criminal defense generally; knowledgeable about the relevant science, statutory law, and caselaw on the topic; and ready to obtain, analyze, deconstruct, reverse and tear apart...

Police hassling exasperates me as a Fairfax criminal lawyer, civil libertarian, and human being. Having police is part of the so-called social contract where society relinquishes vital aspects of its freedom in order to receive protection from the government apparati. However, police and government are...