Virginia Beach, VA
Criminal defense Lawyer at Virginia Beach, VA
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Speeding & Traffic Ticket
OUTCOME: Upheld
Fourth Amendment suppression issue related to scope of consent during a consensual encounter and unlawful detention without adequate legal justification. http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opncavw ... p/0631161.pdf
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Identity theft case. Filed a motion to suppress evidence based on illegal detention and questioning. Motion to dismiss granted.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Client charged with Possession of Schedule I/II Drugs. Did a motion to suppress evidence based on an illegal traffic stop resulting from an outdated "BOL" bulletin.
OUTCOME: Charge reduced from felony to misdemeanor
Grand larceny case. Bench trial. Case was reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor based on an evidentiary objection made at trial that precluded the prosecutor from proving the value of stolen items.
OUTCOME: Charges reduced to misdemeanors
DUI 3rd and driving while DUI revoked case. Filed a motion to suppress that convinced the prosecutor to reduce both of the charges from felonies to misdemeanors. Client avoided a mandatory year and 9 ... 0 days of jail time.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Client charged with rape. Filed a motion that complainant made a prior false allegation of rape and that evidence of the prior allegation should be admissible in court. Case was nolle prosequi minute ... s before the motion was to be argued.
OUTCOME: Reversal, case dismissed.
Fountain v. Commonwealth, 64 Va. App. 51 (2014) was a Virginia Court of Appeals reversal that I secured on a charge of Misuse of 9-1-1. The ruling established that, in order to be convicted under the ... Misuse of 9-1-1 statute, a person who calls 9-1-1 must place that call with the simultaneous intent to annoy, harass, hinder, or delay emergency personnel in the performance of their duties. http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opncavwp/2212131.pdf
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