Seizure
Testify or not- Approach it wisely says Fairfax criminal lawyer
Testify or not. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer I know that getting on the witness stand -- or remaining silent -- is one of the most critical decisions you can make in court. Make sure that your Virginia criminal lawyer fully prepares you to present...
Privacy rights preserved- Reversing crabbed Virginia Supreme Ct. opinion
Fairfax criminal lawyer celebrates SCOTUS's keeping some teeth in the Fourth Amendment. Privacy rights are critical to criminal defense, including the essential Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures and against warrantless searches that require search warrants only issued upon probable cause. As a...
Warrantless police searches after suspect flight – Fairfax criminal lawyer
Warrantless police searches are commonplace. As a Fairfax, Virginia criminal lawyer I fully dissect the circumstances of police searches, to challenge any Fourth Amendment search and seizure violations.
Virginia- Police may not inventory-search cars with unfettered discretion
When police claim the accused possessed contraband, a key path of attack is to seek to suppress evidence of the seizure and search that turned up the alleged contraband. Praised be Virginia’s intermediate appellate court for recently overturning a contraband-bearing car inventory search, because: “[W]e...