Tysons Criminal Defense Lawyer

Delivering Great Tysons DUI / DWI Defense

Virginia DUI law is harsh, and Fairfax County prosecutors are not pushovers with settlement negotiations. The stakes go well beyond the courtroom. A DUI conviction can upend your driving privileges, impose substantial fines and possible jail time, drive up car insurance costs, trigger a security clearance review, complicate professional licensing, and wreak long-term harm to the defendant’s personal and professional life. These adverse consequences can haunt you.

This is where Jon Katz goes to work. Over half of his law practice is DUI defense, and Jon’s credentials sit on top of that day-in, day-out experience. He is a member of the National College for DUI Defense and was trained by one of the nation’s top police instructors in field sobriety testing. He has dealt with defense forensic experts in over 150 cases. As a Tysons DUI lawyer, Jon mines the evidence and law to deflate the prosecution, turn circumstances to his client’s favor, and successfully persuade at every turn — drawing on his extensive trial ability, knowledge of the essential science and law, and persuasive skills.

A multitude of defensive attacks are often necessary in pursuing your best defense. Jon tirelessly pursues reasonable doubt and attacks police stops, field testing, Constitutional infirmities, arrests, breath and blood testing, and the entire prosecution against you. Jon Katz knows the traps and assumptions built into these prosecutions, and he knows how to dismantle them. If plea negotiations are not to your liking, Jon doesn’t hesitate to take your Tysons DUI case to trial and fight for an acquittal.

Tysons Drug Defense

Drug prosecutions need to be fought tooth and nail. A Tysons drug charge can reach far beyond the courtroom, threatening your freedom, your career, your security clearance, and your immigration status. The quality, ability, know-how, experience and devotion of your Virginia drug defense lawyer can make a major difference to your defense.

Jon Katz defends Tysons drug clients across the full range of possession, distribution, trafficking, and manufacturing allegations. His drug defense work includes challenging searches and seizures, attacking undercover operations and informants, scrutinizing government chemist work and testimony, addressing innocent reasons for being near alleged contraband, and attacking dragnet arrests.

The prosecution’s case may at first seem problematic for a defendant. However, weaknesses in the prosecution’s case, Constitutional violations, and reasonable doubt can only be pursued with tireless preparation, dismantling the prosecution’s efforts, and keeping eyes on the prize of victory. Jon brings that drive and ability to every drug defense client’s campaign for favorable court results.

Tysons Assault Defense

Assault and other violent crime allegations in Tysons frequently arrive with the police and prosecution already locked into a one-sided narrative. They too often rush to judgment. Sometimes those rash conclusions can be turned around — but only with full trial readiness, challenging the accuracy of the allegations and pursuing every essential defense available to upend a possible assault conviction.

As a Tysons assault lawyer, Jon fights tirelessly and fearlessly on three fronts: presenting a persuasive counter-story, attacking the prosecutor’s case and their witnesses’ testimony, and persuasively presenting his clients’ defense to judges and jurors. The goal is the best avenues to acquittal.

Tysons Firearms & Weapons Defense

Virginia imposes serious penalties for weapons offenses. Jon is a strong advocate for Second Amendment rights to possess and use firearms and other weapons. He has experience firing numerous semiautomatic rifles and handguns, and he brings that firsthand familiarity to bear when pursuing his clients’ best defense for weapons charges.

When a client is charged with a firearm offense in Tysons, Jon challenges the search and seizure of any weapon found on or near a defendant, contests knowing possession where the facts support it, and pursues every lawful possession defense available under Virginia law. Jon is particularly well-suited for persuasively presenting your defense to judges and jurors.