pretextual police stops
Vehicle contraband searches- Fairfax criminal lawyer warns
Vehicle contraband searches are viewed by plenty of police as being almost as worthwhile as bear waiting to eat spawning salmon swimming upstream. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that the reason that police so often do not issue traffic infraction citations for people...
Secondary offense stops addressed by Virginia DUI lawyer
Secondary traffic offenses in Virginia are traffic violations that expressly do not permit the issuance of a traffic citation, summons or ticket unless in conjunction with a primary offense, which is a violation of one of more other traffic or criminal laws of the commonwealth....
Prolonged Police Traffic Stops Can Violate Fourth Amendment
Prolonged police traffic stops too often fly in the face of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that police try to use traffic stops as a pretext to investigate for such more serious and unrelated...