Virginia criminal lawyer
Flex Your Rights Advisory Board adds Fairfax criminal lawyer Jon Katz
Flex Your Rights has added me to its eight-member Advisory Board. As a Fairfax Criminal Lawyer, I am honored to be joining such civil liberties fighters as Ira Glasser (Drug Policy Alliance president and past longtime ACLU exective director) and Billy Murphy, who is a...
Fast District Court plea hearings – Fairfax criminal lawyer weighs in
Fast guilty and no contest plea hearings in the Virginia General District Court and Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court are common in Northern Virginia counties where appear. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that this approach with agreed pleas and sentencings between...
Coercion – Fairfax criminal lawyer on its Fifth Amendment role
Coercion by police is among the first things I look for as a Fairfax criminal lawyer pursuing the suppression of my client's statements to law enforcement. In 1986, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a Fifth Amendment or Miranda violation does not take place...
DUI defense in Fairfax County – Fairfax criminal lawyer on court practice
DUI defense in Fairfax County, Virginia has its own similarities and differences to nearby counties. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I deal with each county's differing courthouse landscape in defending against DWI and other criminal charges. I have written previously about handling criminal investigations, dealing...
Larceny defense in Virginia addressed by Fairfax criminal lawyer
Larceny / theft / false pretenses / embezzlement / financial fraud (collectively "larceny" or "theft") prosecutions threaten one's reputation, career path, immigration status, and security clearance options, let alone the serious sentencing consequences that can come from a larceny conviction. As a Fairfax criminal...
Underage drinking and fake IDs – Fairfax criminal lawyer weighs in
Underage drinkers and users of false identification risk prosecution under statutes that carry possible jail time. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that the days are over when the legal drinking age in many states through the 1980's was eighteen, and when using a...
Prevailing is everything in court says Fairfax criminal lawyer
Prevailing over the odds and obstacles is what I strive for as a Fairfax criminal lawyer. This means not looking for a fair playing field, a judge who will help me obtain justice, a prosecutor who will not have ice in his or her veins,...
Harmless error caselaw – Fairfax criminal lawyer says it harms defendants
Harmless error analysis often is used by appellate courts to deny relief to criminal defendants. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that sometimes appellate courts find the trial evidence of a criminal defendant's guilt so overwhelming as to make it unnecessary to provide relief...
Barring defense witnesses risks appellate win says Fairfax criminal lawyer
Barring criminal defense witnesses is a risk for a trial judge. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know the importance of convincing the judge to permit defense witnesses to testify and to preserve the appellate record in the event the trial court bars any defense...
Sex offender registration – Virginia criminal lawyer on challenging the law
Sex offender registration requirements in Virginia make it a crime for those with applicable sex crime convictions not to register and re-register as a sex offender as required under the law. As a Virginia criminal lawyer, I know that those required to so register prefer...