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Fifth Amendment Constitutional rights to remain silent with police are critical for your Virginia lawyer to protect. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that not all trial judges and prosecutors provide the level of protection that is required by 5th Amendment caselaw, whether from...

Disorderly conduct (DC) is not a crime you want to be convicted of. It does not look good for one's reputation with employers, for instance, as it summonses images of a boisterous person who does not play by the rules, and perhaps starts consuming alcohol...

False confessions (FC) happen too often, because even one false confession is one too many. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I share with you that the Virginia Supreme Court recently okayed a trial court's refusal to let defendant Joseph Eugene Smith (ultimately convicted of statutory...