Virginia search and seizure law
Refusing police searches is vital to your Virginia criminal defense
Refusing police searches often makes the difference between winning and losing against a Virginia felony, misdemeanor and DUI prosecution. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, repeatedly I hear my clients who consent to police searches say that the police were going to find the contraband or...
Turnaround is a police seizure order- Fairfax criminal lawyer weighs in
"Turnaround," and "stop" are police commands that mean "no reasonable person would have believed he or she was free to leave." As a Fairfax criminal defense lawyer, I know that such a cop command thereby amounts to a Fourth Amendment seizure of the suspect unless...