{"id":27,"date":"2026-06-23T16:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accidentlawyersinvirginia.com\/index.php\/criminal-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:45:30","slug":"criminal-defense","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/accidentlawyersinvirginia.com\/index.php\/criminal-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Aggressive Defense of Your Freedom and Future<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">An arrest or criminal charge can threaten your career, your family, and your personal freedom. When the state brings its resources against you, you need an aggressive, experienced trial attorney to level the playing field.<\/p>\n<p>We defend clients against all misdemeanor and felony charges, including drug offenses, assault and battery, theft, white-collar crimes, domestic violence, and weapons charges. We conduct independent investigations, challenge police procedures, move to suppress illegally obtained evidence, and build a strategic defense aimed at achieving dismissals, acquittals, or reduced sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aggressive Defense of Your Freedom and Future An arrest or criminal charge can threaten your career, your family, and your personal freedom. When the state brings its resources against you, you need an aggressive, experienced trial attorney to level the playing field. We defend clients against all misdemeanor and felony charges, including drug offenses, assault [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":94,"parent":0,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-practice-area.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accidentlawyersinvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accidentlawyersinvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accidentlawyersinvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accidentlawyersinvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accidentlawyersinvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/accidentlawyersinvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accidentlawyersinvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accidentlawyersinvirginia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}